iperender-par command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix iperender-par command not found error message

Introduction

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

iperender-par: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: iperender-par: command not found

Solutions to iperender-par: command not found

How To Fix iperender-par: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu iperender-par is provided by ipe package.

ipe is:

Ipe supports making small figures for inclusion into LaTeX documents as well as making multi-page PDF presentations Ipe’s main features are:

  • Entry of text as LaTeX source code. This makes it easy to enter mathematical expressions, and to reuse the LaTeX-macros of the main document. In the display text is displayed as it will appear in the figure.
  • Produces pure Postscript/PDF, including the text. Ipe converts the LaTeX-source to PDF or Postscript when the file is saved.
  • It is easy to align objects with respect to each other (for instance, to place a point on the intersection of two lines, or to draw a circle through three given points) using various snapping modes.
  • Users can provide ipelets (Ipe plug-ins) to add functionality to Ipe. This way, Ipe can be extended for each task at hand.
  • The text model is based on Unicode, and has been tested with Korean, Chinese, and Japanese.

Package lua5.3 is recommended if using Ipe with LaTeX.

Package texlive-latex-recommended enables unicode text entry (for accented characters).

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

sudo apt-get -y install ipe

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

You can also use apt command to install ipe.

sudo apt -y install ipe

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

sudo aptitude install ipe

Summary

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