w2text command not found

Introduction

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

w2text: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: w2text: command not found

Solutions to w2text: command not found

How To Fix w2text: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu w2text is provided by w2do package.

w2do is:

w2do is a simple to use yet efficient command-line todo manager written in Perl.

Features:

• Well-arranged, fully filterable, plain text or coloured tabular output.
• Support for group, due date and priority categories.
• Capable of managing multiple todo lists.
• Detailed statistics with visual progress representation.
• Completely command driven and therefore suitable for usage in scripts.
• Export to HTML 4.01 Strict via w2html utility.
• Export to plain text via w2text utility.

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

sudo apt-get -y install w2do

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

You can also use apt command to install w2do.

sudo apt -y install w2do

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

sudo aptitude install w2do

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix w2text command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.