hyphen_show command not found

Introduction

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

hyphen_show: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: hyphen_show: command not found

Solutions to hyphen_show: command not found

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

In Ubuntu hyphen_show is provided by hyphen-show package.

hyphen-show is:

hyphen_show scans a DVI-file, tries to find all hyphenations and writes them to stdout. It is useful to check whether TeX’s hyphenation algorithm really did the good job it is supposed to do.

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

sudo apt-get -y install hyphen-show

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

You can also use apt command to install hyphen-show.

sudo apt -y install hyphen-show

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

sudo aptitude install hyphen-show

Summary

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