dblatex command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix dblatex command not found error message

Introduction

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

dblatex: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: dblatex: command not found

Solutions to dblatex: command not found

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

In Ubuntu dblatex is provided by dblatex package.

dblatex is:

DocBook to LaTeX Publishing that transforms your SGML/XML DocBook documents to DVI, PostScript or PDF by translating them in pure LaTeX as a first process. MathML 2.0 markups are supported, too. It originally started as a clone of DB2LaTeX, but has been enhanced extensively since then and is actively maintained by the upstream author.

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

sudo apt-get -y install dblatex

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

You can also use apt command to install dblatex.

sudo apt -y install dblatex

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

sudo aptitude install dblatex

Summary

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