htmlcopy command not found

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

Introduction

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

htmlcopy: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: htmlcopy: command not found

In Ubuntu htmlcopy is provided by libhtml-copy-perl package.

libhtml-copy-perl is:

HTML::Copy copies a HTML file without breaking links in the file and is a sub class of HTML::Parser.

This package provide the Perl module “HTML::Copy” and a command line tool “htmlcopy”.

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

sudo apt-get -y install libhtml-copy-perl

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

You can also use apt command to install libhtml-copy-perl.

sudo apt -y install libhtml-copy-perl

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

sudo aptitude install libhtml-copy-perl

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