orcus-ods command not found

Introduction

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

orcus-ods: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: orcus-ods: command not found

Solutions to orcus-ods: command not found

How To Fix orcus-ods: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu orcus-ods is provided by liborcus-bin package.

liborcus-bin is:

Orcus is a library that provides a collection of standalone file processing filters. It is currently focused on providing filters for spreadsheet documents, but filters for other productivity application types (such as wordprocessor and presentation) are in consideration.

The library currently includes filters for xlsx, ods, csv, and generic XML formats.

This package contains the command-line applications for converting documents.

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

sudo apt-get -y install liborcus-bin

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

You can also use apt command to install liborcus-bin.

sudo apt -y install liborcus-bin

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

sudo aptitude install liborcus-bin

Summary

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