kbibtex command not found

Introduction

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

kbibtex: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: kbibtex: command not found

Solutions to kbibtex: command not found

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

In Ubuntu kbibtex is provided by kbibtex package.

kbibtex is:

An application to manage bibliography databases in the BibTeX format. KBibTeX can be used as a standalone program, but can also be embedded into other KDE applications (e.g. as bibliography editor into Kile).

KBibTeX can query online resources (e.g. Google scholar) via customizable search URLs. It is also able to import complete datasets from NCBI Pubmed. It also supports tagging references with keywords and manages references to local files.

BibTeX files can be exported into HTML, XML, PDF, PS and RTF format using a number of citation styles.

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

sudo apt-get -y install kbibtex

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

You can also use apt command to install kbibtex.

sudo apt -y install kbibtex

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

sudo aptitude install kbibtex

Summary

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