bibtool command not found – CentOS 8

bibtool command not found – CentOS 8

 

I got the below error on my CentOS 8 server. BibTool is a tool for manipulating BibTeX DataBases.
 

bash: bibtool: command not found

 
Do the below steps to install bibtool.

Step 1 : Log into CentOS 8 server as ‘root’ user

Step 2 : Run the command ‘rpm -qa | grep -i bibtool’ to check whether bibtool is already installed or not

 

[root@server /]# rpm -qa | grep -i bibtool
[root@server /]#

 

Steps 3 : Run the command ‘yum install epel-release -y’ to install the EPEL repository

 

[root@server /]# yum install epel-release -y

===================================================================================================
Package Architecture Version Repository Size
===================================================================================================
Installing:
epel-release noarch 8-8.el8 extras 23 k

Transaction Summary
===================================================================================================
Install 1 Package

Total download size: 23 k
Installed size: 32 k
Is this ok [y/N]:y

 

Steps 4 : Run the command ‘yum install BibTool -y’ to install the bibtool package

 

#yum install BibTool

===================================================================================================
Package Architecture Version Repository Size
===================================================================================================
Installing:
BibTool x86_64 2.68-1.el8 epel 613 k

Transaction Summary
===================================================================================================
Install 1 Package

Total download size: 613 k
Installed size: 777 k
Is this ok [y/N]: y

 
 

How to download and install BibTool rpm on CentOS 8 server

 

Step 1 : Log into CentOS 8 server as ‘root’ user

Step 2 : Download BibTool rpm from fedoraproject website using wget command

 

wget https://download-ib01.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/8/Everything/x86_64/Packages/b/BibTool-2.68-1.el8.x86_64.rpm
Saving to: ‘BibTool-2.68-1.el8.x86_64.rpm’

BibTool-2.68-1.el8.x86_6 100%[=================================>] 612.96K 38.8KB/s in 16s

2020-11-12 17:56:49 (38.8 KB/s) – ‘BibTool-2.68-1.el8.x86_64.rpm’ saved [627676/627676]

 

Step 2 : Install BibTool package using rpm command

rpm -Uvh BibTool-2.68-1.el8.x86_64.rpm
 

[root@centos8 /]# rpm -Uvh BibTool-2.68-1.el8.x86_64.rpm
Verifying… ################################# [100%]
Preparing… ################################# [100%]
Updating / installing…
1:BibTool-2.68-1.el8 ################################# [100%]