reformat command not found

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

Introduction

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

reformat: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: reformat: command not found

In Ubuntu reformat is provided by reformat package.

reformat is:

reformat reads plain ascii texts from stdin, reformats them and then writes the result to stdout.

Reformatting can be: o justify text o add a left margin o ‘resize’ text to a special width o …

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

sudo apt-get -y install reformat

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

You can also use apt command to install reformat.

sudo apt -y install reformat

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

sudo aptitude install reformat

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