eplain command not found
Introduction
When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message
eplain: command not found
or when using sudo you get the following error message
sudo: eplain: command not found
Solutions to eplain: command not found
How To Fix eplain: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian
In Ubuntu eplain is provided by texlive-formats-extra package.
texlive-formats-extra is:
Collected TeX `formats’, i.e., large-scale macro packages designed to be dumped into .fmt files – excluding the most common ones, such as latex and context, which have their own package(s). It also includes the Aleph engine and related Omega formats and packages.
This package includes the following CTAN packages:
aleph – Extended TeX
antomega – Alternative language support for Omega/Lambda
edmac – Typeset critical editions
eplain – Extended plain TeX macros
jadetex – Macros supporting Jade DSSSL output
lambda – LaTeX format based on the Omega engine.
lollipop – TeX made easy
mltex – The MLTeX system
mxedruli – A pair of fonts for different Georgian alphabets
omega – A wide-character-set extension of TeX
omegaware – A wide-character-set extension of TeX
otibet – support for Tibetan using Omega
passivetex – Support package for XML/SGML typesetting
psizzl – A TeX format for physics papers
startex – An XML-inspired format for student use
texsis – Plain TeX macros for Physicists
xmltex – Support for parsing XML documents
xmltexconfig – configuration files for xmltex and pdfxmltex
To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.
sudo apt-get -y install texlive-formats-extra
This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.
You can also use apt command to install texlive-formats-extra.
sudo apt -y install texlive-formats-extra
Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.
sudo aptitude install texlive-formats-extra
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to fix eplain command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.