latex2text command not found

Introduction

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

latex2text: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: latex2text: command not found

Solutions to latex2text: command not found

How To Fix latex2text: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu latex2text is provided by python3-pylatexenc package.

python3-pylatexenc is:

Provides a “unicode_to_latex()” function which converts a unicode string into LaTeX text and escape sequences, and a module with a series of routines that parse the LaTeX structure of given LaTeX code and return a logical structure of objects suitable for converting into another format such as plain text. The functionality is also exposed via command-line scripts (latexencode, latex2text, latexwalker).

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

sudo apt-get -y install python3-pylatexenc

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

You can also use apt command to install python3-pylatexenc.

sudo apt -y install python3-pylatexenc

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

sudo aptitude install python3-pylatexenc

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix latex2text command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.