nbibtex command not found

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

Introduction

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

nbibtex: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: nbibtex: command not found

Solutions to nbibtex: command not found

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

In Ubuntu nbibtex is provided by nbibtex package.

nbibtex is:

Tools to help authors take better advantage of BibTeX data, especially when working in collaboration. Instead of using BibTeX ‘keys’, which are chosen arbitrarily and idiosyncratically, nbibtex builds a bibliography by searching the actual contents of citations. It can be used as a drop-in, compatible replacement for bibtex.

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

sudo apt-get -y install nbibtex

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

You can also use apt command to install nbibtex.

sudo apt -y install nbibtex

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

sudo aptitude install nbibtex

Summary

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