herold command not found

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

Introduction

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

herold: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: herold: command not found

Solutions to herold: command not found

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

In Ubuntu herold is provided by herold package.

herold is:

The reuse of HTML content in presentation-neutral form is a frequent problem. One possible solution is to convert HTML to DocBook XML, because DocBook is a semantic markup language for documentation, which enables its users to create document content that captures the logical structure of the content.

The command line tool herold can be used to convert HTML to DocBook. Because HTML elements are often used not as intended, the possibilities for such a transformation are somewhat limited. herold is part of the dbdoclet suite of tools. For more information visit http://www.dbdoclet.org.

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

sudo apt-get -y install herold

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

You can also use apt command to install herold.

sudo apt -y install herold

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

sudo aptitude install herold

Summary

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