saxonb-xslt command not found

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

Introduction

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

saxonb-xslt: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: saxonb-xslt: command not found

In Ubuntu saxonb-xslt is provided by libsaxonb-java package.

libsaxonb-java is:

The saxon package is a collection of tools for processing XML documents and implements XSLT 2.0, XPath 2.0, and XQuery 1.0.

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 libsaxonb-java

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

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

sudo apt -y install libsaxonb-java

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

sudo aptitude install libsaxonb-java

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