translate command not found

Introduction

When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message

translate: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: translate: command not found

Solutions to translate: command not found

How To Fix translate: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu translate is provided by translate package.

translate is:

It looks up a word in a file with language-to-language translations (field separator should be " :: ") and maintains local dictionaries. So it should be easy to add more languages, if you have such a dictionary.

To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.

sudo apt-get -y install translate

This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.

You can also use apt command to install translate.

sudo apt -y install translate

Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.

sudo aptitude install translate

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix translate command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.