utfcheck command not found

Introduction

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

utfcheck: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: utfcheck: command not found

Solutions to utfcheck: command not found

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

In Ubuntu utfcheck is provided by utfcheck package.

utfcheck is:

The utfcheck program examines a text file and prints a summary of what the file contains: ASCII, UTF-8, UTF-16 (either big-endian or little-endian based on an initial Byte Order Mark), or binary data. ASCII and UTF-8 files are processed further; UTF-16 and binary files are not. For a UTF-8 file, the summary includes whether or not the file begins with the Unicode Byte Order Mark (U+FEFF). Any following data encountered that is not well-formed ASCII or UTF-8 Unicode is considered to be binary data; upon reading such data the input file is considered not to be a proper text file and the program exits with an error status.

The utfcheck program returns an exit status of EXIT_SUCCESS if the text file was well-formed, and EXIT_FAILURE otherwise.

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

sudo apt-get -y install utfcheck

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

You can also use apt command to install utfcheck.

sudo apt -y install utfcheck

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

sudo aptitude install utfcheck

Summary

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