ktikz command not found

Introduction

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

ktikz: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: ktikz: command not found

Solutions to ktikz: command not found

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

In Ubuntu ktikz is provided by ktikz package.

ktikz is:

KtikZ is a small application to assist in the creation of diagrams and drawings using the TikZ macros from the LaTeX package “pgf”. It consists of a text editor pane in which the TikZ code for the drawing is edited and a preview pane showing the drawing as rendered by LaTeX. The preview pane can be updated in real-time. Common drawing tools, options and styles are available from the menus to assist the coding process.

This package contains the KDE version of the program.

TikZ is a user-friendly syntax layer for the PGF (portable graphics format) TeX macro package. Pictures can be created within a LaTeX document and included in the output using the most important TeX backend drivers including pdftex and dvips.

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

sudo apt-get -y install ktikz

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

You can also use apt command to install ktikz.

sudo apt -y install ktikz

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

sudo aptitude install ktikz

Summary

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