github-markup command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix github-markup command not found error message

Introduction

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

github-markup: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: github-markup: command not found

Solutions to github-markup: command not found

How To Fix github-markup: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu github-markup is provided by ruby-github-markup package.

ruby-github-markup is:

GitHub Markup converts multiple different rich text files to html.

The following markups are supported:

  • Markdown
  • Textile
  • RDoc
  • Emacs org-mode
  • Creole
  • MediaWiki
  • reStructuredText
  • AsciiDoc
  • Plain Old Documentation (pod)

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

sudo apt-get -y install ruby-github-markup

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

You can also use apt command to install ruby-github-markup.

sudo apt -y install ruby-github-markup

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

sudo aptitude install ruby-github-markup

Summary

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