ldptool command not found

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

Introduction

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

ldptool: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: ldptool: command not found

Solutions to ldptool: command not found

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

In Ubuntu ldptool is provided by python3-tldp package.

python3-tldp is:

The Linux Documentation Project (TLDP) stores hundreds of documents in DocBook SGML, DocBook XML, Linuxdoc and Asciidoc formats. This tool automatically detects the source format and generates a directory containing chunked and single-page HTML, a PDF and a plain text output.

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

sudo apt-get -y install python3-tldp

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

You can also use apt command to install python3-tldp.

sudo apt -y install python3-tldp

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

sudo aptitude install python3-tldp

Summary

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