source-highlight-settings command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix source-highlight-settings command not found error message

Introduction

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

source-highlight-settings: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: source-highlight-settings: command not found

Solutions to source-highlight-settings: command not found

How To Fix source-highlight-settings: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu source-highlight-settings is provided by source-highlight package.

source-highlight is:

This program, given a source file, produces a document with syntax highlighting.

It supports syntax highlighting for over 100 file formats, including major programming languages, markup formats, and configuration file formats. For output, the following formats are supported: HTML, XHTML, LaTeX, Texinfo, ANSI color escape sequences, and DocBook.

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

sudo apt-get -y install source-highlight

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

You can also use apt command to install source-highlight.

sudo apt -y install source-highlight

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

sudo aptitude install source-highlight

Summary

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