flatlatex command not found

Introduction

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

flatlatex: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: flatlatex: command not found

Solutions to flatlatex: command not found

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

In Ubuntu flatlatex is provided by flatlatex package.

flatlatex is:

flatlatex is a basic converter from LaTeX math to human readable text math using unicode characters.

It allows one to inline small equations into emails or on instant messaging clients, thus allowing to avoid sending a pdf while still being understandable.

This package provides an executable program that actually converts LaTeX maths to unicode.

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

sudo apt-get -y install flatlatex

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

You can also use apt command to install flatlatex.

sudo apt -y install flatlatex

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

sudo aptitude install flatlatex

Summary

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