daps-check-deps command not found

Introduction

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

daps-check-deps: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: daps-check-deps: command not found

Solutions to daps-check-deps: command not found

How To Fix daps-check-deps: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu daps-check-deps is provided by daps package.

daps is:

DAPS contains a set of stylesheets, scripts and makefiles that enable you to create HTML, PDF, EPUB and other formats from DocBook XML with a single command. It also contains tools to generate profiled source tarballs for distributing your XML sources for translation or review.

DAPS also includes tools that assist you when writing DocBook XML: linkchecker, validator, spellchecker, editor macros and stylesheets for converting DocBook XML.

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

sudo apt-get -y install daps

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

You can also use apt command to install daps.

sudo apt -y install daps

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

sudo aptitude install daps

Summary

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