ldoc command not found

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

Introduction

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

ldoc: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: ldoc: command not found

Solutions to ldoc: command not found

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

In Ubuntu ldoc is provided by lua-ldoc package.

lua-ldoc is:

LDoc is a LuaDoc-compatible documentation generation system for Lua source code. It parses the declaration and documentation comments in a set of Lua source files and produces a set of XHTML pages describing the commented declarations and functions.

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

sudo apt-get -y install lua-ldoc

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

You can also use apt command to install lua-ldoc.

sudo apt -y install lua-ldoc

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

sudo aptitude install lua-ldoc

Summary

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