metabase-profile command not found

Introduction

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

metabase-profile: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: metabase-profile: command not found

Solutions to metabase-profile: command not found

How To Fix metabase-profile: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu metabase-profile is provided by libmetabase-fact-perl package.

libmetabase-fact-perl is:

Metabase is a system for associating metadata with CPAN distributions. The metabase can be used to store test reports, reviews, coverage analysis reports, reports on static analysis of coding style, or anything else for which datatypes are constructed.

Metabase::Fact is a base class for Facts (really opinions or analyses) that can be sent to or retrieved from a Metabase repository.

Metabase::Report is a base class for collections of Metabase::Fact objects that can be sent to or retrieved from a Metabase system.

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

sudo apt-get -y install libmetabase-fact-perl

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

You can also use apt command to install libmetabase-fact-perl.

sudo apt -y install libmetabase-fact-perl

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

sudo aptitude install libmetabase-fact-perl

Summary

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