troff2rtf command not found

Introduction

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

troff2rtf: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: troff2rtf: command not found

Solutions to troff2rtf: command not found

How To Fix troff2rtf: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu troff2rtf is provided by troffcvt package.

troffcvt is:

Use this package to convert manuals and manpages and other documents written using troff to more manageable formats, such as HTML, RTF, or plain text.

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

sudo apt-get -y install troffcvt

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

You can also use apt command to install troffcvt.

sudo apt -y install troffcvt

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

sudo aptitude install troffcvt

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix troff2rtf command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.