pod2markdown command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix pod2markdown command not found error message

Introduction

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

pod2markdown: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: pod2markdown: command not found

Solutions to pod2markdown: command not found

How To Fix pod2markdown: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu pod2markdown is provided by libpod-markdown-perl package.

libpod-markdown-perl is:

Pod::Markdown is a Perl module that parses Plain Old Documentation (POD) and converts it into the Markdown text format. It subclasses Pod::Parser, so it supports all of its commands, too.

Markdown is a markup language to convert structured text into (X)HTML. Its main design goal is to make the input text as readable as possible. For this, the syntax is highly inspired by the format of plain text email. Markdown supports features like headers, emphasis, code blocks, blockquotes and links. For maximum flexibility, it also allows embedding HTML tags, both within paragraphs (eg. ), and at block level (

,).

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

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

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

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

sudo apt -y install libpod-markdown-perl

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

sudo aptitude install libpod-markdown-perl

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix pod2markdown command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.