wpd2text command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix wpd2text command not found error message

Introduction

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

wpd2text: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: wpd2text: command not found

Solutions to wpd2text: command not found

How To Fix wpd2text: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu wpd2text is provided by libwpd-tools package.

libwpd-tools is:

libwpd is a library for reading and writing WordPerfect(TM) documents. Importing from WordPerfect 4/5/6/7/8/9/10/11 and WordPerfect for Macintosh 1.x/2.x/3.5e files are supported. libwpd has complete support for the entire set of WordPerfect extended characters, too.

This package contains some little programs using libwpd to convert WordPerfect files into HTML/Raw files and Text.

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

sudo apt-get -y install libwpd-tools

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

You can also use apt command to install libwpd-tools.

sudo apt -y install libwpd-tools

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

sudo aptitude install libwpd-tools

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix wpd2text command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.