Install rst2man failed for varnish agent [fix]

Question

I'm trying install varnish agent on ubuntu server using virtual box. There is a message in the middle installation process that say "you need rst2man installed to make dist".

When I tried install rst2man using "sudo apt-get install rst2man" another message come in :

Reading package list....done

Building dependecy tree

Reading state information....done

E: unable to locate package rst2man

"unable to locate package rst2man" what does it mean ? anyone know ? please help.

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Problem fix: I tried to install python-docutils for the rst2man.

Answer 1

python-docutils wasn't working for me

I had to install the package docutils-common

sudo apt-get install docutils-common

Answer 2

rst2man is a virtual package, then you need install python-docutils package than provide rst2man and utilities for the documentation of Python modules.

sudo apt-get install python-docutils

After install this package, try the command:

sudo which rst2man

Answer 3

In case if you installing varnish-agent-2 - after

sudo apt-get install python-docutils

you should execute again

./configure

Answer 4

Working on CentOS and likely RHEL as well:

yum install python-docutils