bib2bib command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix bib2bib command not found error message

Introduction

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

bib2bib: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: bib2bib: command not found

In Ubuntu bib2bib is provided by bibtex2html package.

bibtex2html is:

Collection of tools for filtering BibTeX data bases and for producing HTML documents from BibTeX data bases:

aux2bib extracts a BibTeX database consisting of only the entries that are refereed by an aux file.
bib2bib is a filter tool that reads one or several bibliography files, filters the entries with respect to a given criterion, and outputs the list of selected keys together with a new bibliography file containing only the selected entries;
bibtex2html is a translator that reads a bibliography file and outputs two HTML documents that are respectively the cited bibliography in a nice presentation, and the original BibTeX file augmented with several transparent HTML links to allow easy navigation.

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

sudo apt-get -y install bibtex2html

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

You can also use apt command to install bibtex2html.

sudo apt -y install bibtex2html

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

sudo aptitude install bibtex2html

In this tutorial we learn how to fix bib2bib command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.