bluefish command not found

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

Introduction

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

bluefish: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: bluefish: command not found

Solutions to bluefish: command not found

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

In Ubuntu bluefish is provided by bluefish package.

bluefish is:

Bluefish is a powerful editor targeted towards programmers and web developers, with many options to write websites, scripts and programming code. Bluefish supports a wide variety of programming and markup languages and has many features, e.g.

  • Customizable code folding, auto indenting and completion
  • Support for remote files operation over FTP, SFTP, HTTPS, WebDAV, etc.
  • Site upload and download
  • Powerful search and replace engine
  • Customizable integration of external programs such as lint, make, etc
  • Snippets plugin to automate often used code
  • Code-aware in-line spell checking
  • Zencoding or Emmet support
  • Bookmarks panel

but is still lightweight and fast.

For validation of CSS/HTML/XML documents you need csstidy, tidy, weblint and/or xmllint. For preview to work, you need a web browser that can view local files given to it on the command line. For PHP or Python bluefish supports php-codesniffer and pylint. Tools not suggested but supported are make, perl, php5-cli and java-compiler.

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

sudo apt-get -y install bluefish

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

You can also use apt command to install bluefish.

sudo apt -y install bluefish

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

sudo aptitude install bluefish

Summary

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