showtable command not found

Introduction

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

showtable: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: showtable: command not found

Solutions to showtable: command not found

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

In Ubuntu showtable is provided by libdata-showtable-perl package.

libdata-showtable-perl is:

Data::ShowTable is a Perl module which defines subroutines to print arrays of data in a nicely formatted listing, using one of four possible formats: simple table, boxed table, list style, and HTML-formatting (for World-Wide-Web output). In other words, showtable is a data formatting program. Using the ‘-html’ option, showtable can accept ASCII tabular data and format it appropriately for display through a Web-browser.

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

sudo apt-get -y install libdata-showtable-perl

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

You can also use apt command to install libdata-showtable-perl.

sudo apt -y install libdata-showtable-perl

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

sudo aptitude install libdata-showtable-perl

Summary

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