csl_unsorted command not found

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

Introduction

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

csl_unsorted: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: csl_unsorted: command not found

Solutions to csl_unsorted: command not found

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

In Ubuntu csl_unsorted is provided by python3-citeproc package.

python3-citeproc is:

Citeproc-py is a library that produces formatted bibliographies and citations from bibliographic databases following formatting instructions provided by XML style files written in the Citation Style Language (CSL).

Currently, BibTeX and JSON are supported as input database formats, and plain text, reStructuredText and HTML as output format.

This package contains the Python 3 modules and the CLI tool csl_unsorted.

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

sudo apt-get -y install python3-citeproc

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

You can also use apt command to install python3-citeproc.

sudo apt -y install python3-citeproc

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

sudo aptitude install python3-citeproc

Summary

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