parser3 command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix parser3 command not found error message

Introduction

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

parser3: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: parser3: command not found

Solutions to parser3: command not found

How To Fix parser3: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu parser3 is provided by parser3-cgi package.

parser3-cgi is:

This package provides the /usr/lib/cgi-bin/parser3 CGI interpreter built for use in Apache 2 with mod_actions, or any other CGI httpd that supports a similar mechanism.

Parser 3 - simple and convenient object-oriented language which allows creating good sites in short time.

Available features:

  • XML, XSL, XPath and DOM support
  • Available in documented source code
  • Uniformed database support
  • Support of object-oriented programmers
  • Detailed language documentation (160 pages!)
  • UTF-8 support

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

sudo apt-get -y install parser3-cgi

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

You can also use apt command to install parser3-cgi.

sudo apt -y install parser3-cgi

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

sudo aptitude install parser3-cgi

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix parser3 command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.