ansi2html command not found
Introduction
When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message
ansi2html: command not found
or when using sudo you get the following error message
sudo: ansi2html: command not found
Solutions to ansi2html: command not found
How To Fix ansi2html: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian
In Ubuntu ansi2html is provided by colorized-logs package.
colorized-logs is:
Some tools like gcc, dmesg, grep –color, colordiff, ccze, etc can enhance their output with color, making reading a lot more pleasant. You can usually view that only on your terminal or with “less -R”; this package gives you:
- ansi2html: convert logs to HTML
- ansi2txt: drop ANSI control codes
- ttyrec2ansi: drop timing data from ttyrec files
- pipetty: makes a program think its stdout and stderr are connected to a terminal; use as a prefix: “pipetty dmesg|tee”
- lesstty: pipe a program (as above) to “less -R”
To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.
sudo apt-get -y install colorized-logs
This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.
You can also use apt command to install colorized-logs.
sudo apt -y install colorized-logs
Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.
sudo aptitude install colorized-logs
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to fix ansi2html command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.