coderay command not found

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

Introduction

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

coderay: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: coderay: command not found

Solutions to coderay: command not found

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

In Ubuntu coderay is provided by coderay package.

coderay is:

CodeRay is a Ruby library that can scan an input file or text in a web page and encode it as syntax highlighted HTML output.

CodeRay supports many input languages including: C, C++, CSS, Delphi, diff, Groovy, HTML, RHTML (Erb+HTML), Nitro-XHTML, Java, JavaScript, JSON, PHP, Python, Ruby, SQL and YAML.

CodeRay can output to HTML, JSON, XML, Yaml.

The coderay binary scans a file and outputs in HTML.

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

sudo apt-get -y install coderay

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

You can also use apt command to install coderay.

sudo apt -y install coderay

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

sudo aptitude install coderay

Summary

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