asciidoctor-pdf-optimize command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix asciidoctor-pdf-optimize command not found error message

Introduction

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

asciidoctor-pdf-optimize: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: asciidoctor-pdf-optimize: command not found

In Ubuntu asciidoctor-pdf-optimize is provided by ruby-asciidoctor-pdf package.

ruby-asciidoctor-pdf is:

An extension for Asciidoctor that converts AsciiDoc documents to PDF using the Prawn PDF library.

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

sudo apt-get -y install ruby-asciidoctor-pdf

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

You can also use apt command to install ruby-asciidoctor-pdf.

sudo apt -y install ruby-asciidoctor-pdf

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

sudo aptitude install ruby-asciidoctor-pdf

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