rubber command not found

Introduction

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

rubber: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: rubber: command not found

Solutions to rubber: command not found

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

In Ubuntu rubber is provided by rubber package.

rubber is:

This is a building system for LaTeX documents. It is based on a routine that runs just as many compilations as necessary. The module system provides a great flexibility that virtually allows support for any package with no user intervention, as well as pre- and post-processing of the document. The standard modules currently provide support for bibtex, dvips, dvipdfm, pdftex, makeindex. A good number of standard packages are supported, including graphics/graphicx with automatic conversion between various graphics formats and Metapost compilation.

Some optional parts require the installation of suggested Debian packages: imagemagick (graphics conversion), r-cran-knitr, texlive-bibtex-extra (biblatex), texlive-binaries (aleph), texlive-latex-extra (cweb, minitoc, moreverb, multibib, nomencl, ntheorem), texlive-latex-recommended (beamer, index, listings), texlive-pictures (gnuplottex), transfig (conversion from XFig format).

pythontex from texlive-extra-utils requires python3-prompt-toolkit and python3-pygments.

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

sudo apt-get -y install rubber

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

You can also use apt command to install rubber.

sudo apt -y install rubber

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

sudo aptitude install rubber

Summary

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