match_parens command not found
Introduction
When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message
match_parens: command not found
or when using sudo you get the following error message
sudo: match_parens: command not found
Solutions to match_parens: command not found
How To Fix match_parens: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian
In Ubuntu match_parens is provided by texlive-extra-utils package.
texlive-extra-utils is:
Myriad additional TeX-related support programs. Includes programs and macros for DVI file manipulation, literate programming, patgen, and plenty more.
This package includes the following CTAN packages:
a2ping – Advanced PS, PDF, EPS converter
adhocfilelist – ‘\listfiles’ entries from the command line
arara – Automation of LaTeX compilation
bibtex8 – BibTeX variant supporting 8-bit encodings
bibtexu – BibTeX variant supporting Unicode (UTF-8), via ICU
bundledoc – Bundle together all the files needed to build a LaTeX document
checklistings – Pass verbatim contents through a compiler and reincorporate the resulting output
chklref – Check for problems with labels in LaTeX
clojure-pamphlet – A simple literate programming tool based on clojure’s pamphlet system
cluttex – An automation tool for running LaTeX
ctan-o-mat – Upload or validate a package for CTAN
ctan_chk – CTAN guidelines verifier and corrector for uploading projects
ctanbib – Export CTAN entries to bib format
ctanify – Prepare a package for upload to CTAN
ctanupload – Support for users uploading to CTAN
ctie – C version of tie (merging Web change files)
cweb – CWEB for ANSI-C/C++ compilers
detex – Strip TeX from a source file
dtl – Tools to dis-assemble and re-assemble DVI files
dtxgen – Creates a template for a self-extracting .dtx file
dvi2tty – Produce ASCII from DVI
dviasm – A utility for editing DVI files
dvicopy – Copy DVI files, flattening VFs
dviinfox – Perl script to print DVI meta information
dviljk – DVI to Laserjet output
dviout-util –
dvipos – support DVI pos: specials used by ConTeXt DVI output
dvisvgm – Convert DVI, EPS, and PDF files to Scalable Vector Graphics format (SVG)
findhyph – Find hyphenated words in a document
git-latexdiff – Call latexdiff on two Git revisions of a file
gsftopk – Convert “Ghostscript fonts” to PK files
hook-pre-commit-pkg – Pre-commit git hook for LaTeX package developpers
installfont – A bash script for installing a LaTeX font family
ketcindy – macros for graphic generation and Cinderella plugin
latex-git-log – Typeset git log information
latex-papersize – Calculate LaTeX settings for any font and paper size
latex2man – Translate LaTeX-based manual pages into Unix man format
latex2nemeth – Convert LaTeX source to Braille with math in Nemeth
latexfileversion – Prints the version and date of a LaTeX class or style file
latexindent – Indent a LaTeX document, highlighting the programming structure
latexpand – Expand \input and \include in a LaTeX document
light-latex-make – llmk: A build tool for LaTeX documents
listings-ext – Automated input of source
ltxfileinfo – Print version information for a LaTeX file
ltximg – Extract LaTeX environments into separate image files
luajittex – LuaTeX with just-in-time (jit) compiler, with and without HarfBuzz
make4ht – A build system for tex4ht
match_parens – Find mismatches of parentheses, braces, (angle) brackets, in texts
mflua – configuration and base files for MFLua
mkjobtexmf – Generate a texmf tree for a particular job
optexcount – Python script for counting words in OpTeX documents
patgen – Generate hyphenation patterns
pdfbook2 – Create booklets from PDF files
pdfcrop – Crop PDF graphics
pdfjam – Shell scripts interfacing to pdfpages
pdflatexpicscale – Support software for downscaling graphics to be included by pdfLaTeX
pdftex-quiet – A bash wrapper for pdfTeX limiting its output to relevant errors
pdftosrc – Extract source file or stream from PDF file
pdfxup – Create n-up PDF pages with minimal margins
pfarrei – LaTeX support of pastors’ and priests’ work
pkfix – Replace pk fonts in PostScript with Type 1 fonts
pkfix-helper – Make PostScript files accessible to pkfix
pythontex – Run Python from within a document, typesetting the results
seetexk – Utilities for manipulating DVI files
spix – Yet another TeX compilation tool: simple, human readable, no option, no magic
srcredact – A tool for redacting sources
sty2dtx – Create a .dtx file from a .sty file
synctex – engine-level feature synchronizing output and source
tex4ebook – Converter from LaTeX to ebook formats
texcount – Count words in a LaTeX document
texdef – Display the definitions of TeX commands
texdiff – Compare documents and produce tagged merge
texdirflatten – Collect files related to a LaTeX job in a single directory
texfot – Filter clutter from the output of a TeX run
texlive-scripts-extra – TeX Live scripts
texliveonfly – On-the-fly download of missing TeX live packages
texloganalyser – Analyse TeX logs
texlogfilter – Filter LaTeX engines output or log file
texlogsieve – Filter and summarize LaTeX log files
texosquery – Cross-platform Java application to query OS information
texplate – A tool for creating document structures based on templates
texware – Utility programs for use with TeX
tie – Allow multiple web change files
tpic2pdftex – Use tpic commands in pdfTeX
typeoutfileinfo – Display class/package/file information
web – The original literate programming system
xindex – Unicode compatible index generation
xpdfopen – Commands to control PDF readers, under X11
To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.
sudo apt-get -y install texlive-extra-utils
This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.
You can also use apt command to install texlive-extra-utils.
sudo apt -y install texlive-extra-utils
Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.
sudo aptitude install texlive-extra-utils
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to fix match_parens command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.