update-yorickdoc command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix update-yorickdoc command not found error message

Introduction

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

update-yorickdoc: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: update-yorickdoc: command not found

Solutions to update-yorickdoc: command not found

How To Fix update-yorickdoc: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu update-yorickdoc is provided by yorick-doc package.

yorick-doc is:

Yorick is an interpreted programming language for:

  • scientific simulations or calculations
  • postprocessing or steering large simulation codes
  • interactive scientific graphics
  • reading, writing, and translating large files of numbers

The Yorick package ships with little documentation: a manpage, the Yorick Manual in info format, and its own “help” command. This package adds the Yorick Manual and Quick Reference in PDF and HTML format and a utility (update-yorickdoc) to build HTML documentation for the set of functions (from Yorick and add-on packages) installed on this machine. By default, these pages are built and updated automatically whenever necessary.

Once this package is installed, simply point your preferred web browser to file:///usr/share/doc/yorick-doc/README.html .

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

sudo apt-get -y install yorick-doc

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

You can also use apt command to install yorick-doc.

sudo apt -y install yorick-doc

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

sudo aptitude install yorick-doc

Summary

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