uni2beta command not found

Introduction

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

uni2beta: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: uni2beta: command not found

Solutions to uni2beta: command not found

How To Fix uni2beta: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu uni2beta is provided by unibetacode package.

unibetacode is:

The unibetacode package contains two utilities primarily designed for ASCII transliteration of classical Greek: beta2uni converts Beta Code text to UTF-8 Unicode, and uni2beta converts text from UTF-8 Unicode to Beta Code. A third utility, unibetaprep, converts special codes for other characters (such as Byzantine musical symbols) into four- to six-digit Unicode code points.

Beta Code is an ASCII-only encoding scheme created in the 1970s as an efficient, intuitive digital input method for classical Greek. It provides an easy way to enter classical Greek on a plain ASCII keyboard for conversion to UTF-8 Unicode text. This package implements a subset of Beta Code as specified by the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (TLG) Project at the University of California, Irvine. The unibetacode package also is compatible with the Beta Code implementation of the Perseus Digital Library of Tufts University and other online repositories of classical Greek.

TLG Coptic support only includes the basic alphabet plus the jinma (grave) accent. TLG Hebrew support only covers the basic alphabet, aleph (U+05D0) through tav (U+05EA). To this base, unibetacode adds full Unicode coverage. The unibetacode(5) man page describes the Beta Code file format in detail. Files in the examples directory provide sample encodings and test data.

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

sudo apt-get -y install unibetacode

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

You can also use apt command to install unibetacode.

sudo apt -y install unibetacode

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

sudo aptitude install unibetacode

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix uni2beta command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.