doc8 command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix doc8 command not found error message

Introduction

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

doc8: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: doc8: command not found

In Ubuntu doc8 is provided by python3-doc8 package.

python3-doc8 is:

Doc8 is an opinionated style checker for rst (with basic support for plain text) styles of documentation.

This package contains the Python 3.x module.

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

sudo apt-get -y install python3-doc8

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

You can also use apt command to install python3-doc8.

sudo apt -y install python3-doc8

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

sudo aptitude install python3-doc8

In this tutorial we learn how to fix doc8 command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.