ascii85 command not found

Introduction

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

ascii85: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: ascii85: command not found

Solutions to ascii85: command not found

How To Fix ascii85: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu ascii85 is provided by ruby-ascii85 package.

ruby-ascii85 is:

Ascii85 (also called “Base85”) is a form of binary-to-text encoding, which is mainly used in Adobe’s PostScript and PDF format. This package provides a ruby library to encode/decode Ascii85.

It ships also a command line utility, which can encode/decode files to the standard output.

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

sudo apt-get -y install ruby-ascii85

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

You can also use apt command to install ruby-ascii85.

sudo apt -y install ruby-ascii85

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

sudo aptitude install ruby-ascii85

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix ascii85 command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.