wvDVI command not found

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

Introduction

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

wvDVI: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: wvDVI: command not found

Solutions to wvDVI: command not found

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

In Ubuntu wvDVI is provided by wv package.

wv is:

wvWare (previously known as mswordview) is a library that allows access to Microsoft Word files. It can load and parse the Word 2000, Word 97, Word 95, and Word 6 file formats. (Work is underway to support reading earlier formats as well: Word 2 documents are converted to plain text.)

This package provides the following programs:

  • wvWare: Converts to HTML and LaTeX. It’s used by a small army of helper scripts able to preview Word documents and convert them to various other formats, like PostScript, PDF, DVI, etc.

  • wvRTF: Converts to Microsoft’s Rich Text Format.

  • wvSummary: Displays the summary information stream of all OLE2 files, i.e. Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, Access, etc.

  • wvVersion: Outputs the version of the Word format a document is stored in.

Note that conversion to DVI, PostScript, or PDF requires the ’texlive' package; PDF conversion also requires Ghostscript. Having ELinks, Links, or Lynx will greatly improve the plain text output. ImageMagick may help with the quality of images. If you wish to preview Word documents from the comfort of your mail reader, install a PostScript viewer like gv.

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

sudo apt-get -y install wv

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

You can also use apt command to install wv.

sudo apt -y install wv

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

sudo aptitude install wv

Summary

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