sd2text command not found

Introduction

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

sd2text: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: sd2text: command not found

Solutions to sd2text: command not found

How To Fix sd2text: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu sd2text is provided by libstaroffice-tools package.

libstaroffice-tools is:

The purpose of libstaroffice is to build a filter for old StarOffice’s documents (.sdc, .sdw, …) based on librevenge (see https://sourceforge.net/p/libwpd/wiki/librevenge/ and http://www.documentliberation.org/projects/ ).

This package contains tools tp convert StarOffice documents to RAW, SVG, Text, CSV and HTML.

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

sudo apt-get -y install libstaroffice-tools

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

You can also use apt command to install libstaroffice-tools.

sudo apt -y install libstaroffice-tools

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

sudo aptitude install libstaroffice-tools

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix sd2text command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.