yodl2man command not found

Introduction

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

yodl2man: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: yodl2man: command not found

Solutions to yodl2man: command not found

How To Fix yodl2man: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu yodl2man is provided by yodl package.

yodl is:

Yodl is a package that implements a pre-document language and tools to process it. The idea of Yodl is that you write up a document in a pre-language, then use the tools (e.g. yodl2html) to convert it to some final document language. Current converters are for HTML, man, LaTeX SGML and texinfo, a poor-man’s text converter and an experimental xml converter. Main document types are “article”, “report”, “book”, “manpage” and “letter”. The Yodl document language was designed to be easy to use and extensible.

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

sudo apt-get -y install yodl

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

You can also use apt command to install yodl.

sudo apt -y install yodl

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

sudo aptitude install yodl

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix yodl2man command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.