saxon-xslt command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix saxon-xslt command not found error message

Introduction

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

saxon-xslt: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: saxon-xslt: command not found

Solutions to saxon-xslt: command not found

How To Fix saxon-xslt: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu saxon-xslt is provided by libsaxon-java package.

libsaxon-java is:

The saxon package is a collection of tools for processing XML documents and implements the XSLT 1.0 recommendation, including XPath 1.0, in its entirety.

Saxon is known to work well for processing DocBook XML documents with the DocBook XSL Stylesheets. Related packages make the process straightforward.

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

sudo apt-get -y install libsaxon-java

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

You can also use apt command to install libsaxon-java.

sudo apt -y install libsaxon-java

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

sudo aptitude install libsaxon-java

Summary

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