pod2rst command not found

Introduction

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

pod2rst: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: pod2rst: command not found

Solutions to pod2rst: command not found

How To Fix pod2rst: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu pod2rst is provided by libpod-pom-view-restructured-perl package.

libpod-pom-view-restructured-perl is:

Pod::POM::View::Restructured outputs reStructuredText that is expected to be used with Sphinx. Verbatim sections (indented paragraphs) in the POD will be output with syntax highlighting for Perl code by default.

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

sudo apt-get -y install libpod-pom-view-restructured-perl

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

You can also use apt command to install libpod-pom-view-restructured-perl.

sudo apt -y install libpod-pom-view-restructured-perl

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

sudo aptitude install libpod-pom-view-restructured-perl

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix pod2rst command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.