runxlrd command not found

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

Introduction

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

runxlrd: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: runxlrd: command not found

In Ubuntu runxlrd is provided by python3-xlrd package.

python3-xlrd is:

xlrd is a Python library to Extract data from new and old Microsoft Excel spreadsheets. It supports both .xls and .xlsx files (from Excel 2007).

xlrd is a pure Python module and does not require any dependency outside of the standard Python distribution.

This package contains only the Python3 version of xlrd.

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

sudo apt-get -y install python3-xlrd

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

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

sudo apt -y install python3-xlrd

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

sudo aptitude install python3-xlrd

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