mml2musicxml command not found

Introduction

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

mml2musicxml: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: mml2musicxml: command not found

Solutions to mml2musicxml: command not found

How To Fix mml2musicxml: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu mml2musicxml is provided by mmllib-tools package.

mmllib-tools is:

MMLlib is a pure Python implementation of functionality related to the Music Macro Language as implemented by Microsoft® GW-BASIC® and compatibles, which is its most common form, also implemented by the PC speaker driver in Linux and BSD, with a number of extensions and changes.

This package contains command-line tools for handling MML. These currently are:

mml2musicxml - convert MML to MusicXML (cf. musescore) mmllint - check various aspects of MML files for correctness

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

sudo apt-get -y install mmllib-tools

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

You can also use apt command to install mmllib-tools.

sudo apt -y install mmllib-tools

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

sudo aptitude install mmllib-tools

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix mml2musicxml command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.