obus-idl2xml command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix obus-idl2xml command not found error message

Introduction

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

obus-idl2xml: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: obus-idl2xml: command not found

In Ubuntu obus-idl2xml is provided by libobus-ocaml-bin package.

libobus-ocaml-bin is:

OBus is a pure OCaml implementation of D-Bus. It aims to provide a clean and easy way for OCaml programmers to access and provide D-Bus services.

This package contains command-line tools useful for using OBus.

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

sudo apt-get -y install libobus-ocaml-bin

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

You can also use apt command to install libobus-ocaml-bin.

sudo apt -y install libobus-ocaml-bin

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

sudo aptitude install libobus-ocaml-bin

In this tutorial we learn how to fix obus-idl2xml command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.