antiword command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix antiword command not found error message

Introduction

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

antiword: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: antiword: command not found

In Ubuntu antiword is provided by antiword package.

antiword is:

Antiword is a free MS Word reader.

It converts the binary files from MS Word 2, 6, 7, 97, 2000 and 2003 to text, Postscript, PDF and XML.

Note that it doesn’t support the XML-based formats which newer MS Word versions produce by default (.docx).

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

sudo apt-get -y install antiword

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

You can also use apt command to install antiword.

sudo apt -y install antiword

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

sudo aptitude install antiword

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