pydoc2 command not found

Introduction

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

pydoc2: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: pydoc2: command not found

Solutions to pydoc2: command not found

How To Fix pydoc2: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu pydoc2 is provided by python2 package.

python2 is:

Python2, the high-level, interactive object oriented language, includes an extensive class library with lots of goodies for network programming, system administration, sounds and graphics.

This package is a dependency package, which depends on Debian’s Python2 version (currently v2.7).

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

sudo apt-get -y install python2

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

You can also use apt command to install python2.

sudo apt -y install python2

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

sudo aptitude install python2

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix pydoc2 command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.