whitakers-words command not found

Introduction

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

whitakers-words: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: whitakers-words: command not found

Solutions to whitakers-words: command not found

How To Fix whitakers-words: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu whitakers-words is provided by whitakers-words package.

whitakers-words is:

Whitakers Words is a program that takes in words in Latin, and analyzes them to determine the stems, case, form, and any possible translations. It can also provide Latin words with a given translation, going from Latin to English. It is an invaluable tool for Latin users, be they experts or new learners.

Words was created by Willam Whitaker (1936-2010) as a curiosity that demonstrated his new programming language, Ada. It was since improved and iterated on, ported away from it’s DOS roots, and given an online access point.

This package contains the executable parser program.

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

sudo apt-get -y install whitakers-words

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

You can also use apt command to install whitakers-words.

sudo apt -y install whitakers-words

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

sudo aptitude install whitakers-words

Summary

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