kate-syntax-highlighter command not found

Introduction

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

kate-syntax-highlighter: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: kate-syntax-highlighter: command not found

Solutions to kate-syntax-highlighter: command not found

How To Fix kate-syntax-highlighter: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu kate-syntax-highlighter is provided by libkf5syntaxhighlighting-tools package.

libkf5syntaxhighlighting-tools is:

This is a stand-alone implementation of the Kate syntax highlighting engine. It’s meant as a building block for text editors as well as for simple highlighted text rendering (e.g. as HTML), supporting both integration with a custom editor as well as a ready-to-use QSyntaxHighlighter sub-class.

Provides additional tools for libkf5syntaxhighlighting5

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

sudo apt-get -y install libkf5syntaxhighlighting-tools

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

You can also use apt command to install libkf5syntaxhighlighting-tools.

sudo apt -y install libkf5syntaxhighlighting-tools

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

sudo aptitude install libkf5syntaxhighlighting-tools

Summary

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