latex2pdf command not found

Introduction

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

latex2pdf: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: latex2pdf: command not found

Solutions to latex2pdf: command not found

How To Fix latex2pdf: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu latex2pdf is provided by liblatex-driver-perl package.

liblatex-driver-perl is:

The LaTeX::Driver module encapsulates the details of invoking the LaTeX programs to format a LaTeX document. Formatting with LaTeX is complicated; there are potentially many programs to run and the output of those programs must be monitored to determine whether further processing is required.

LaTeX::Driver runs the required commands in the directory specified, either explicitly with the dirname option or implicitly by the directory part of basename, or in the current directory. As a result of the processing up to a dozen or more intermediate files are created. These can be removed with the cleanup method.

The LaTeX::Driver module takes care of running and re-running latex on a LaTeX document so that forward references, tables of contents, and lists of figures and tables are resolved. It will also run bibtex and makeindex if it detects that a bibliography or in index have been specified, and will re-run latex again one or more times until the formatting of the document has stabilized.

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

sudo apt-get -y install liblatex-driver-perl

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

You can also use apt command to install liblatex-driver-perl.

sudo apt -y install liblatex-driver-perl

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

sudo aptitude install liblatex-driver-perl

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix latex2pdf command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.