multimarkdown command not found

Introduction

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

multimarkdown: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: multimarkdown: command not found

Solutions to multimarkdown: command not found

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

In Ubuntu multimarkdown is provided by libtext-multimarkdown-perl package.

libtext-multimarkdown-perl is:

Text::MultiMarkdown is a Perl module that extends the functionality of the Markdown structured text format (see the libtext-markdown-perl package). Markdown provides a simple way to translate easy-to-read and easy-to-write structured text into (X)HTML. In turn, this module extends the functionality by implementing the MultiMarkdown syntax extensions as described in: URL:http://fletcherpenney.net/multimarkdown.

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

sudo apt-get -y install libtext-multimarkdown-perl

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

You can also use apt command to install libtext-multimarkdown-perl.

sudo apt -y install libtext-multimarkdown-perl

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

sudo aptitude install libtext-multimarkdown-perl

Summary

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