fm2ps command not found

Introduction

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

fm2ps: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: fm2ps: command not found

Solutions to fm2ps: command not found

How To Fix fm2ps: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu fm2ps is provided by sdf package.

sdf is:

SDF (Simple Document Format) is a freely available document development system which generates high quality outputs in a variety of formats from a single source. The output formats supported include PostScript(tm), PDF, HTML, plain text, POD, man pages, LaTeX, MIF, SGML, Windows(tm) help, RTF, MIMS F6 help and MIMS HTX help. If the idea of specifying documents in a logical manner via a simple markup language sounds appealing, SDF may be useful to you.

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

sudo apt-get -y install sdf

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

You can also use apt command to install sdf.

sudo apt -y install sdf

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

sudo aptitude install sdf

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix fm2ps command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.