phplex command not found

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

Introduction

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

phplex: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: phplex: command not found

Solutions to phplex: command not found

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

In Ubuntu phplex is provided by python3-phply package.

python3-phply is:

phply is a parser for the PHP programming language written using PLY, a Lex/YACC-style parser generator toolkit for Python. With this parser you can:

  • Convert PHP code to Python
  • Run PHP templates in a Python environment
  • Learn more about parsing “industrial” languages, warts and all

This is the Python 3 version of the package and the executables.

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

sudo apt-get -y install python3-phply

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

You can also use apt command to install python3-phply.

sudo apt -y install python3-phply

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

sudo aptitude install python3-phply

Summary

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