stx2any command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix stx2any command not found error message

Introduction

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

stx2any: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: stx2any: command not found

Solutions to stx2any: command not found

How To Fix stx2any: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu stx2any is provided by stx2any package.

stx2any is:

stx2any is a converter from structured text (Stx), which is plain text written in a standardised way, into other formats. Formats available currently include (X)HTML, man, raw text, DocBook XML, PostScript and LaTeX.

Stx is a markup language in the tradition of plain text like markups, like wiki markup and ReST. For a comparison between different plain text markup languages, see stx2any’s home page (http://sange.fi/~atehwa/cgi-bin/piki.cgi/stx2any).

This package also has the following utilities:

  • strip_stx – a literate programming tool
  • gather_stx_titles – a script to automate cross-linking between documents
  • extract_usage_from_stx – a script to produce “usage” messages from man pages written in stx
  • html2stx – a utility to convert HTML into Stx.

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

sudo apt-get -y install stx2any

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

You can also use apt command to install stx2any.

sudo apt -y install stx2any

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

sudo aptitude install stx2any

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix stx2any command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.