wp2latex command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix wp2latex command not found error message

Introduction

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

wp2latex: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: wp2latex: command not found

Solutions to wp2latex: command not found

How To Fix wp2latex: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu wp2latex is provided by wp2latex package.

wp2latex is:

WP2LaTeX is a program for conversion WordPerfect documents to LaTeX. All known WP fileformats are supported: MAC WP1.x, WP2,3,4.x, PC WP WP3.x, WP4.x, WP5.x and WP6,7,8,9,10.x. It is possible to convert a lot of features. For example: Centered+Right+Left text, Endnotes, Formulas, Footers, Footnotes, Headers, Indentings, Tables, a lot of Extended characters (Greek, math, cyrilic) and of course a normal text.

This is the pure wp2latex converter to convert WPerfect files.

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

sudo apt-get -y install wp2latex

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

You can also use apt command to install wp2latex.

sudo apt -y install wp2latex

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

sudo aptitude install wp2latex

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix wp2latex command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.