rdiscount command not found

Introduction

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

rdiscount: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: rdiscount: command not found

Solutions to rdiscount: command not found

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

In Ubuntu rdiscount is provided by ruby-rdiscount package.

ruby-rdiscount is:

Discount is an implementation of John Gruber’s Markdown markup language in C. It implements all of the language described in the markdown syntax document and passes the Markdown 1.0 test suite.

RDiscount is a Ruby extension library for Discount. It can be used as a stand-alone program or within another Ruby program.

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

sudo apt-get -y install ruby-rdiscount

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

You can also use apt command to install ruby-rdiscount.

sudo apt -y install ruby-rdiscount

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

sudo aptitude install ruby-rdiscount

Summary

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