dot2ruby command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix dot2ruby command not found error message

Introduction

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

dot2ruby: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: dot2ruby: command not found

In Ubuntu dot2ruby is provided by ruby-graphviz package.

ruby-graphviz is:

Ruby/Graphviz provides an interface to layout and generate images of directed graphs in a variety of formats (PostScript, PNG, etc.) using GraphViz.

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

sudo apt-get -y install ruby-graphviz

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

You can also use apt command to install ruby-graphviz.

sudo apt -y install ruby-graphviz

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

sudo aptitude install ruby-graphviz

In this tutorial we learn how to fix dot2ruby command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.