mellon_create_metadata command not found

Introduction

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

mellon_create_metadata: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: mellon_create_metadata: command not found

Solutions to mellon_create_metadata: command not found

How To Fix mellon_create_metadata: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu mellon_create_metadata is provided by libapache2-mod-auth-mellon package.

libapache2-mod-auth-mellon is:

mod-auth-mellon is an Apache module which enables you to authenticate users of a web site against a SAML 2.0 enabled IdP. It can grant access to paths and provide attributes to other modules and applications.

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

sudo apt-get -y install libapache2-mod-auth-mellon

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

You can also use apt command to install libapache2-mod-auth-mellon.

sudo apt -y install libapache2-mod-auth-mellon

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

sudo aptitude install libapache2-mod-auth-mellon

Summary

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