sql-formatter command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix sql-formatter command not found error message

Introduction

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

sql-formatter: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: sql-formatter: command not found

In Ubuntu sql-formatter is provided by php-sql-formatter package.

php-sql-formatter is:

SqlFormatter is a lightweight PHP class to format SQL statements. It can automatically indent and add line breaks in addition to syntax highlighting.

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

sudo apt-get -y install php-sql-formatter

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

You can also use apt command to install php-sql-formatter.

sudo apt -y install php-sql-formatter

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

sudo aptitude install php-sql-formatter

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