bibtex-validate command not found

Introduction

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

bibtex-validate: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: bibtex-validate: command not found

Solutions to bibtex-validate: command not found

How To Fix bibtex-validate: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu bibtex-validate is provided by libtext-bibtex-validate-perl package.

libtext-bibtex-validate-perl is:

Text::BibTeX::Validate checks the standard fields of BibTeX entries for their compliance with their format. In particular, value of ’email’ is checked against RFC 822 mandated email address syntax, value of ‘doi’ is checked to start with ‘10.’ and contain at least one ‘/’ and so on. Some nonstandard fields as ‘isbn’, ‘issn’ and ‘url’ are also checked. Failures of checks are returned as instances of Text::BibTeX::Validate::Warning.

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

sudo apt-get -y install libtext-bibtex-validate-perl

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

You can also use apt command to install libtext-bibtex-validate-perl.

sudo apt -y install libtext-bibtex-validate-perl

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

sudo aptitude install libtext-bibtex-validate-perl

Summary

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