redcarpet command not found

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

Introduction

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

redcarpet: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: redcarpet: command not found

In Ubuntu redcarpet is provided by ruby-redcarpet package.

ruby-redcarpet is:

Redcarpet is Ruby library for Markdown processing.

This is fast, safe and extensible Markdown to (X)HTML parser.

Learn more about its usage at /usr/share/doc/redcarpet/README.markdown.gz

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

sudo apt-get -y install ruby-redcarpet

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

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

sudo apt -y install ruby-redcarpet

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

sudo aptitude install ruby-redcarpet

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