wordlist2dawg command not found

Introduction

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

wordlist2dawg: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: wordlist2dawg: command not found

Solutions to wordlist2dawg: command not found

How To Fix wordlist2dawg: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu wordlist2dawg is provided by tesseract-ocr package.

tesseract-ocr is:

Tesseract is an open source Optical Character Recognition (OCR) Engine. It can be used directly, or (for programmers) using an API to extract printed text from images. It supports a wide variety of languages. This package includes the command line tool.

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

sudo apt-get -y install tesseract-ocr

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

You can also use apt command to install tesseract-ocr.

sudo apt -y install tesseract-ocr

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

sudo aptitude install tesseract-ocr

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix wordlist2dawg command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.