translit command not found

Introduction

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

translit: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: translit: command not found

Solutions to translit: command not found

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

In Ubuntu translit is provided by liblingua-translit-perl package.

liblingua-translit-perl is:

Lingua::Translit can be used to convert text from one writing system to another, based on national or international transliteration tables. Where possible a reverse transliteration is supported.

The term transliteration describes the conversion of text from one writing system or alphabet to another one. The conversion is ideally unique, mapping one character to exactly one character, so the original spelling can be reconstructed. Practically this is not always the case and one single letter of the original alphabet can be transcribed as two, three or even more letters.

Furthermore there is more than one transliteration scheme for one writing system. Therefore it is an important and necessary information, which scheme will be or has been used to transliterate a text, to work integrative and be able to reconstruct the original data.

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

sudo apt-get -y install liblingua-translit-perl

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

You can also use apt command to install liblingua-translit-perl.

sudo apt -y install liblingua-translit-perl

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

sudo aptitude install liblingua-translit-perl

Summary

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