org-ruby command not found

Introduction

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

org-ruby: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: org-ruby: command not found

Solutions to org-ruby: command not found

How To Fix org-ruby: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu org-ruby is provided by ruby-org package.

ruby-org is:

An Emacs org-mode parser written in Ruby. The most significant thing this library does today is convert org-mode files to HTML or Textile. Currently, you cannot do much to customize the conversion. The supplied textile conversion is optimized for extracting “content” from the orgfile as opposed to “metadata.”

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

sudo apt-get -y install ruby-org

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

You can also use apt command to install ruby-org.

sudo apt -y install ruby-org

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

sudo aptitude install ruby-org

Summary

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