mkdtskel command not found

Introduction

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

mkdtskel: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: mkdtskel: command not found

Solutions to mkdtskel: command not found

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

In Ubuntu mkdtskel is provided by libxml-dt-perl package.

libxml-dt-perl is:

XML::DT provides a way to manipulate in various ways an XML document. Including: changing the contents, transforming to another document, generating statistics, generating info about the XML document to generate another document (i.e. creating a table of contents for a HTML file).

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

sudo apt-get -y install libxml-dt-perl

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

You can also use apt command to install libxml-dt-perl.

sudo apt -y install libxml-dt-perl

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

sudo aptitude install libxml-dt-perl

Summary

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