paf command not found

Introduction

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

paf: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: paf: command not found

Solutions to paf: command not found

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

In Ubuntu paf is provided by libpod-abstract-perl package.

libpod-abstract-perl is:

Pod::Abstract provides an abstract, tree-based interface to POD documents. It allows straightforward, round-trip capable manipulation of POD documentation.

This also allows an easy tree-based mechanism to write a Pod:: type filter. The package includes a simple, and extensible, command line utility called “paf” (Pod::Abstract Filter). This program can chain together filter operations, allowing manipulation and extraction of POD documents from the command line.

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

sudo apt-get -y install libpod-abstract-perl

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

You can also use apt command to install libpod-abstract-perl.

sudo apt -y install libpod-abstract-perl

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

sudo aptitude install libpod-abstract-perl

Summary

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