hscolour command not found

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

Introduction

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

hscolour: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: hscolour: command not found

In Ubuntu hscolour is provided by hscolour package.

hscolour is:

HsColour currently has five output formats: ANSI terminal codes, HTML 3.2 with tags, HTML 4.01 with CSS, LaTeX, and mIRC chat client codes.

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

sudo apt-get -y install hscolour

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

You can also use apt command to install hscolour.

sudo apt -y install hscolour

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

sudo aptitude install hscolour

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