markdown-it command not found

Introduction

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

markdown-it: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: markdown-it: command not found

Solutions to markdown-it: command not found

How To Fix markdown-it: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu markdown-it is provided by python3-markdown-it package.

python3-markdown-it is:

High speed Python markdown parser based in markdown-it. markdown-it-py follows the CommonMark spec for baseline parsing. Also, new syntax rules can be added and even replace existing ones. New syntax extensions can be added to extend the parser.

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

sudo apt-get -y install python3-markdown-it

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

You can also use apt command to install python3-markdown-it.

sudo apt -y install python3-markdown-it

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

sudo aptitude install python3-markdown-it

Summary

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