umap command not found

Introduction

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

umap: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: umap: command not found

Solutions to umap: command not found

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

In Ubuntu umap is provided by libunicode-map8-perl package.

libunicode-map8-perl is:

Unicode::Map8 is a Perl module that implements efficient mapping tables for conversion between 8-bit character sets and 16 bit Unicode. There are about 170 mapping tables between various character sets, based on vendor mapping tables provided by Unicode, Inc. and code tables in RFC1345.

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

sudo apt-get -y install libunicode-map8-perl

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

You can also use apt command to install libunicode-map8-perl.

sudo apt -y install libunicode-map8-perl

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

sudo aptitude install libunicode-map8-perl

Summary

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