tidy command not found

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

Introduction

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

tidy: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: tidy: command not found

In Ubuntu tidy is provided by tidy package.

tidy is:

Tidy corrects and cleans up HTML and XML documents by fixing markup errors and upgrading legacy code to modern standards.

This package contains a command line tool ’tidy'.

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

sudo apt-get -y install tidy

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

You can also use apt command to install tidy.

sudo apt -y install tidy

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

sudo aptitude install tidy

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