pod2readme command not found

Introduction

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

pod2readme: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: pod2readme: command not found

Solutions to pod2readme: command not found

How To Fix pod2readme: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu pod2readme is provided by libpod-readme-perl package.

libpod-readme-perl is:

Pod::Readme is no longer a subclass of a POD parsing module. Instead, it is a simple POD filter.

This module allows authors to mark portions of the POD to be included only in, or to be excluded from the README file. It also allows you to include portions of another file (such as a separate ChangeLog).

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

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

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

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

sudo apt -y install libpod-readme-perl

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

sudo aptitude install libpod-readme-perl

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix pod2readme command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.