appstream-compose command not found

Introduction

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

appstream-compose: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: appstream-compose: command not found

Solutions to appstream-compose: command not found

How To Fix appstream-compose: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu appstream-compose is provided by appstream-util package.

appstream-util is:

AppStream is a cross-distribution effort for creating and sharing metadata about software components available in the package repositories of a distribution.

This package provides an utility to work with AppStream metadata, which uses libappstream-glib.

It also contains Autotools macros to easily integrate AppStream metadata into an Autotools-based buildsystem, by running ‘appstream-util’ to validate the files before installing them.

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

sudo apt-get -y install appstream-util

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

You can also use apt command to install appstream-util.

sudo apt -y install appstream-util

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

sudo aptitude install appstream-util

Summary

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