sphinx2md command not found

Introduction

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

sphinx2md: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: sphinx2md: command not found

Solutions to sphinx2md: command not found

How To Fix sphinx2md: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu sphinx2md is provided by python3-nb2plots package.

python3-nb2plots is:

nb2plots converts Jupyter notebooks to ReST files for Sphinx, and back again.

Nb2plots assumes that the ReST document will become the source for your Sphinx web pages, but also for future versions of the notebook. The notebook may serve as a draft for the polished ReST page, and an output format from the Sphinx build.

This package contains the Python 3 version of nb2plots.

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

sudo apt-get -y install python3-nb2plots

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

You can also use apt command to install python3-nb2plots.

sudo apt -y install python3-nb2plots

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

sudo aptitude install python3-nb2plots

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix sphinx2md command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.