colorize command not found

Introduction

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

colorize: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: colorize: command not found

Solutions to colorize: command not found

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

In Ubuntu colorize is provided by colorize package.

colorize is:

Colorizes text read from standard input stream or file by using ANSI escape sequences (and also vice versa, i.e. cleaning text from sequences) and prints resulting output to the terminal.

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

sudo apt-get -y install colorize

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

You can also use apt command to install colorize.

sudo apt -y install colorize

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

sudo aptitude install colorize

Summary

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