geany command not found

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

Introduction

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

geany: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: geany: command not found

Solutions to geany: command not found

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

In Ubuntu geany is provided by geany package.

geany is:

Geany is a small and lightweight integrated development environment. It was developed to provide a small and fast IDE, which has only a few dependencies from other packages. It is using only the GTK3 toolkit and therefore you need only the GTK3 runtime libraries to run Geany.

The basic features of Geany are:

syntax highlighting
code completion
auto completion of constructs like if, for and while, XML and HTML
call tips
folding
many supported filetypes like C, Java, PHP, HTML, Python, Perl, Pascal
symbol lists
embedded terminal emulation

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

sudo apt-get -y install geany

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

You can also use apt command to install geany.

sudo apt -y install geany

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

sudo aptitude install geany

Summary

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