bib2gls command not found

Introduction

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

bib2gls: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: bib2gls: command not found

Solutions to bib2gls: command not found

How To Fix bib2gls: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu bib2gls is provided by texlive-bibtex-extra package.

texlive-bibtex-extra is:

Additional BibTeX styles and bibliography data(bases), notably including BibLaTeX.

This package includes the following CTAN packages:

aaai-named – BibTeX style for AAAI

aichej – Bibliography style file for the AIChE Journal

ajl – BibTeX style for AJL

amsrefs – A LaTeX-based replacement for BibTeX

annotate – A bibliography style with annotations

apacite – Citation style following the rules of the APA

apalike-ejor – A BibTeX style file for the European Journal of Operational Research

apalike2 – Bibliography style that approaches APA requirements

archaeologie – A citation-style which covers rules of the German Archaeological Institute

authordate – Author/date style citation styles

beebe – A collection of bibliographies

besjournals – Bibliographies suitable for British Ecological Society journals

bestpapers – A BibTeX package to produce lists of authors’ best papers

bib2gls – Command line application to convert .bib files to glossaries-extra.sty resource files

bibarts – “Arts”-style bibliographical information

bibexport – Extract a BibTeX file based on a .aux file

bibhtml – BibTeX support for HTML files

biblatex – Sophisticated Bibliographies in LaTeX

biblatex-abnt – BibLaTeX style for Brazil’s ABNT rules

biblatex-ajc2020unofficial – BibLaTeX style for the Australasian Journal of Combinatorics

biblatex-anonymous – A tool to manage anonymous work with BibLaTeX

biblatex-apa – BibLaTeX citation and reference style for APA

biblatex-apa6 – BibLaTeX citation and reference style for APA 6th Edition

biblatex-archaeology – A collection of BibLaTeX styles for German prehistory

biblatex-arthistory-bonn – BibLaTeX citation style covers the citation and bibliography guidelines for art historians

biblatex-bath – Harvard referencing style as recommended by the University of Bath Library

biblatex-bookinarticle – Manage book edited in article

biblatex-bookinother – Manage book edited in other entry type

biblatex-bwl – BibLaTeX citations for FU Berlin

biblatex-caspervector – A simple citation style for Chinese users

biblatex-chem – A set of BibLaTeX implementations of chemistry-related bibliography styles

biblatex-chicago – Chicago style files for BibLaTeX

biblatex-claves – A tool to manage claves of old litterature with BibLaTeX

biblatex-cv – Create a CV from BibTeX files

biblatex-dw – Humanities styles for BibLaTeX

biblatex-enc – BibLaTeX style for the Ecole nationale des chartes (Paris)

biblatex-ext – Extended BibLaTeX standard styles

biblatex-fiwi – BibLaTeX styles for use in German humanities

biblatex-gb7714-2015 – A BibLaTeX implementation of the GBT7714-2015 bibliography style for Chinese users

biblatex-german-legal – Comprehensive citation style for German legal texts

biblatex-gost – BibLaTeX support for GOST standard bibliographies

biblatex-historian – A BibLaTeX style

biblatex-ieee – IEEE style files for BibLaTeX

biblatex-ijsra – BibLaTeX style for the International Journal of Student Research in Archaeology

biblatex-iso690 – BibLaTeX style for ISO 690 standard

biblatex-jura2 – Citation style for the German legal profession

biblatex-juradiss – BibLaTeX stylefiles for German law theses

biblatex-license – Add license data to the bibliography

biblatex-lncs – BibLaTeX style for Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science

biblatex-lni – LNI style for BibLaTeX

biblatex-luh-ipw – BibLaTeX styles for social sciences

biblatex-manuscripts-philology – Manage classical manuscripts with BibLaTeX

biblatex-mla – MLA style files for BibLaTeX

biblatex-morenames – New names for standard BibLaTeX entry type

biblatex-multiple-dm – Load multiple datamodels in BibLaTeX

biblatex-musuos – A BibLaTeX style for citations in musuos.cls

biblatex-nature – BibLaTeX support for Nature

biblatex-nejm – BibLaTeX style for the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM)

biblatex-nottsclassic – Citation style for the University of Nottingham

biblatex-opcit-booktitle – Use op. cit. for the booktitle of a subentry

biblatex-oxref – BibLaTeX styles inspired by the Oxford Guide to Style

biblatex-philosophy – Styles for using BibLaTeX for work in philosophy

biblatex-phys – A BibLaTeX implementation of the AIP and APS bibliography style

biblatex-publist – BibLaTeX bibliography support for publication lists

biblatex-readbbl – Read a .bbl file created by biber

biblatex-realauthor – Indicate the real author of a work

biblatex-sbl – Society of Biblical Literature (SBL) style files for BibLaTeX

biblatex-science – BibLaTeX implementation of the Science bibliography style

biblatex-shortfields – Use short forms of fields with BibLaTeX

biblatex-socialscienceshuberlin – BibLaTeX-style for the social sciences at HU Berlin

biblatex-software – BibLaTeX stylefiles for software products

biblatex-source-division – References by “division” in classical sources

biblatex-spbasic – A BibLaTeX style emulating Springer’s old spbasic.bst

biblatex-subseries – Manages subseries with BibLaTeX

biblatex-swiss-legal – Bibliography and citation styles following Swiss legal practice

biblatex-trad – “Traditional” BibTeX styles with BibLaTeX

biblatex-true-citepages-omit – Correction of some limitation of the citepages=omit option of BibLaTeX styles

biblatex-unified – BibLaTeX implementation of the unified stylesheet for linguistics journals

biblatex-vancouver – Vancouver style for BibLaTeX

biblatex2bibitem – Convert BibLaTeX-generated bibliography to bibitems

biblist – Print a BibTeX database

bibtexperllibs – BibTeX Perl Libraries

bibtopic – Include multiple bibliographies in a document

bibtopicprefix – Prefix references to bibliographies produced by bibtopic

bibunits – Multiple bibliographies in one document

biolett-bst – A BibTeX style for the journal “Biology Letters”

bookdb – A BibTeX style file for cataloguing a home library

breakcites – Ensure that multiple citations may break at line end

cell – Bibliography style for Cell

chbibref – Change the Bibliography/References title

chembst – A collection of BibTeX files for chemistry journals

chicago – A “Chicago” bibliography style

chicago-annote – Chicago-based annotated BibTeX style

chicagoa – “Chicago” bibliography style with annotations

chscite – Bibliography style for Chalmers University of Technology

citation-style-language – Bibliography formatting with Citation Style Language

citeall – Cite all entries of a bbl created with BibLaTeX

citeref – Add reference-page-list to bibliography-items

collref – Collect blocks of references into a single reference

compactbib – Multiple thebibliography environments

crossrefware – Scripts for working with crossref.org

custom-bib – Customised BibTeX styles

din1505 – Bibliography styles for German texts

dk-bib – Danish variants of standard BibTeX styles

doipubmed – Special commands for use in bibliographies

ecobiblatex – Global Ecology and Biogeography BibLaTeX styles for the Biber backend

econ-bst – BibTeX style for economics papers

economic – BibTeX support for submitting to Economics journals

fbs – BibTeX style for Frontiers in Bioscience

figbib – Organize figure databases with BibTeX

footbib – Bibliographic references as footnotes

francais-bst – Bibliographies conforming to French typographic standards

gbt7714 – BibTeX implementation of China’s bibliography style standard GB/T 7714-2015

geschichtsfrkl – BibLaTeX style for historians

harvard – Harvard citation package for use with LaTeX 2e

harvmac – Macros for scientific articles

hep-bibliography – An acronym extension for glossaries

historische-zeitschrift – BibLaTeX style for the journal ‘Historische Zeitschrift’

icite – Indices locorum citatorum

ietfbibs – Generate BibTeX entries for various IETF index files

ijqc – BibTeX style file for the Intl. J. Quantum Chem

inlinebib – Citations in footnotes

iopart-num – Numeric citation style for IOP journals

is-bst – Extended versions of standard BibTeX styles

jbact – BibTeX style for biology journals

jmb – BibTeX style for the Journal of Theoretical Biology

jneurosci – BibTeX style for the Journal of Neuroscience

jurabib – Extended BibTeX citation support for the humanities and legal texts

ksfh_nat – BibTeX style for KSFH Munich

listbib – Lists contents of BibTeX files

logreq – Support for automation of the LaTeX workflow

ltb2bib – Converts amsrefs’ .ltb bibliographical databases to BibTeX format

luabibentry – Repeat BibTeX entries in a LuaLaTeX document body

margbib – Display bibitem tags in the margins

multibib – Multiple bibliographies within one document

multibibliography – Multiple versions of a bibliography, with different sort orders

munich – An alternative authordate bibliography style

nar – BibTeX style for Nucleic Acid Research

newcastle-bst – This package provides a BibTeX style to format reference lists in the Harvard at Newcastle style

nmbib – Multiple versions of a bibliography, with different sort orders

notes2bib – Integrating notes into the bibliography

notex-bst – A BibTeX style that outputs HTML

oscola – BibLaTeX style for the Oxford Standard for the Citation of Legal Authorities

perception – BibTeX style for the journal Perception

plainyr – Plain bibliography style, sorted by year first

pnas2009 – BibTeX style for PNAS (newer version)

rsc – BibTeX style for use with RSC journals

showtags – Print the tags of bibliography entries

sort-by-letters – Bibliography styles for alphabetic sorting

splitbib – Split and reorder your bibliography

turabian-formatting – Formatting based on Turabian’s Manual

uni-wtal-ger – Citation style for literary studies at the University of Wuppertal

uni-wtal-lin – Citation style for linguistic studies at the University of Wuppertal

urlbst – Web support for BibTeX

usebib – A simple bibliography processor

vak – BibTeX style for Russian Theses, books, etc

windycity – A Chicago style for BibLaTeX

xcite – Use citation keys from a different document

zootaxa-bst – A BibTeX style for the journal Zootaxa

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

sudo apt-get -y install texlive-bibtex-extra

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

You can also use apt command to install texlive-bibtex-extra.

sudo apt -y install texlive-bibtex-extra

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

sudo aptitude install texlive-bibtex-extra

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix bib2gls command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.