odoc command not found

Introduction

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

odoc: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: odoc: command not found

Solutions to odoc: command not found

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

In Ubuntu odoc is provided by ocaml-odoc package.

ocaml-odoc is:

Odoc is a documentation generator for the OCaml programming language. It reads doc comments contained in OCaml source code, delimited with (** … *), and produces HTML.

Odoc’s main advantage over ocamldoc is an accurate cross-referencer, which handles the complexity of the OCaml module system. Odoc also offers a good opportunity to improve HTML output compared to ocamldoc.

Furthermore, odoc can be used by dune to generate documentation of OCaml projects using dune as a build-system.

This package contains the odoc tool.

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

sudo apt-get -y install ocaml-odoc

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

You can also use apt command to install ocaml-odoc.

sudo apt -y install ocaml-odoc

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

sudo aptitude install ocaml-odoc

Summary

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