rst2xetex command not found

Introduction

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

rst2xetex: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: rst2xetex: command not found

Solutions to rst2xetex: command not found

How To Fix rst2xetex: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu rst2xetex is provided by python3-docutils package.

python3-docutils is:

reStructuredText is an easy-to-read, what-you-see-is-what-you-get plaintext markup syntax and parser system. It is useful for in-line program documentation (such as Python docstrings), for quickly creating simple web pages, and for standalone documents.

The purpose of the Docutils project is to create a set of tools for processing reStructuredText documentation into useful formats, such as HTML, LaTeX, ODT or Unix manpages.

This package includes Python 3 modules and command line utilities.

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

sudo apt-get -y install python3-docutils

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

You can also use apt command to install python3-docutils.

sudo apt -y install python3-docutils

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

sudo aptitude install python3-docutils

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix rst2xetex command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.