latex2rtf command not found

Introduction

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

latex2rtf: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: latex2rtf: command not found

Solutions to latex2rtf: command not found

How To Fix latex2rtf: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu latex2rtf is provided by latex2rtf package.

latex2rtf is:

Attempts to convert as much formatting information as possible from LaTeX to Microsoft’s Rich Text Format (RTF). While RTF has limited support for mathematical markup, it is widely supported as a “least common denominator” word processing format.

The detailed documentation is in the latex2rtf-doc package.

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

sudo apt-get -y install latex2rtf

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

You can also use apt command to install latex2rtf.

sudo apt -y install latex2rtf

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

sudo aptitude install latex2rtf

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix latex2rtf command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.