podselect command not found

Introduction

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

podselect: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: podselect: command not found

Solutions to podselect: command not found

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

In Ubuntu podselect is provided by libpod-parser-perl package.

libpod-parser-perl is:

This package contains the following mdoules for using Perl5 “pod” (Plain Old Documentation).

“Pod::Parser”, which provides a base class for parsing and selecting sections of POD documentation from an input stream.

“Pod::Select”, which provides a subclass of Pod::Parser and an exported function named “podselect()” to dump selected sections of raw pod documentation from an input stream.

“Pod::PlainText”, which is a replacement for “Pod::Text” and the corresponding “pod2text()” function. It is derived from the Pod::Parser class. As of perl 5.00_58, Pod::PlainText has been re-written by Russ Allbery, and has been renamed to Pod::Text in the core Perl distribution (replacing the previous implementation of Pod::Text). The Pod::PlainText module is still provided with Pod::Parser solely for backward compatibility.

“Pod::InputObjects”: Some input objects needed by Pod::Parser, and for advanced users of Pod::Parser that need more about a command besides its name and text.

“Pod::ParseUtils”, a module with several object-oriented helpers for POD parsing and processing. Probably the most important is Pod::Hyperlink for parsing and expanding POD hyperlinks L<…>.

This distribution is considered to be legacy - it has been superseded by Pod::Simple which brings more robustness, unicode and various other benefits. It has been removed from perl core after 5.31.0, and is packaged only for backward compatibility.

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

sudo apt-get -y install libpod-parser-perl

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

You can also use apt command to install libpod-parser-perl.

sudo apt -y install libpod-parser-perl

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

sudo aptitude install libpod-parser-perl

Summary

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