mistletoe command not found

Introduction

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

mistletoe: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: mistletoe: command not found

Solutions to mistletoe: command not found

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

In Ubuntu mistletoe is provided by python3-mistletoe package.

python3-mistletoe is:

mistletoe is a Markdown parser in pure Python, designed to be fast, spec-compliant and fully customizable.

Apart from being the fastest CommonMark-compliant Markdown parser implementation in pure Python, mistletoe also supports easy definitions of custom tokens. Parsing Markdown into an abstract syntax tree also allows us to swap out renderers for different output formats, without touching any of the core components.

CommonMark is a dialect of Markdown with a strict specification.

Markdown is a lightweight markup language with plain-text-formatting syntax.

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

sudo apt-get -y install python3-mistletoe

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

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

sudo apt -y install python3-mistletoe

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

sudo aptitude install python3-mistletoe

Summary

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