debiandoc2latexpdf command not found

Introduction

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

debiandoc2latexpdf: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: debiandoc2latexpdf: command not found

Solutions to debiandoc2latexpdf: command not found

How To Fix debiandoc2latexpdf: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu debiandoc2latexpdf is provided by debiandoc-sgml package.

debiandoc-sgml is:

This is an SGML-based documentation formatting package used for the Debian manuals. It reads markup files and produces HTML, LaTeX, DVI (via LaTeX), PostScript (via LaTeX/DVI), PDF (via LaTeX), Texinfo, Info (via Texinfo), DebianDoc SGML, DocBook XML, plain text (with overstrikes a la troff as well as without) files.

The LaTeX based output needs the texlive, texlive-latex-extra and texlive-lang-all packages. In addition to this, Chinese and Japanese need latex-cjk-all and corresponding font packages.

The Texinfo based output needs the texinfo package.

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

sudo apt-get -y install debiandoc-sgml

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

You can also use apt command to install debiandoc-sgml.

sudo apt -y install debiandoc-sgml

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

sudo aptitude install debiandoc-sgml

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix debiandoc2latexpdf command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.