spec-beautifier command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix spec-beautifier command not found error message

Introduction

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

spec-beautifier: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: spec-beautifier: command not found

In Ubuntu spec-beautifier is provided by hxtools package.

hxtools is:

A collection of tools and scripts that have accumulated over the years, and each of which seems to be too small to warrants its own project.

bsvplay(1) - convert BASICA music files to PCM
cctypeinfo(1) - show sizes of C types on the implementation it was compiled with
checkbrack(1) - check parenthesis and bracket count
declone(1) - break hardlinks
diff2php(1) - transform patch to self-serving PHP file
fd0ssh(1) - pipe for password-over-stdin support to ssh
fnt2bdf(1) - convert VGA raw fonts to X11 BDF
gpsh(1) - grep in tracklists and play audio files
logontime(8) - show cumulative logon time from wtmp
mailsplit(1) - split an mbox into single files
mod2opus(1) – wrapper for tracker module/MIDI to Opus transcoding
hxnetload(8) – show utilization of network interface
ofl(1) - open file lister (replaces fuser and lsof -m)
paddrspacesize(1) - print size of processes’ address spaces
pesubst(1) - perl-regexp stream substitution (replaces sed for sub-stitutions)
pmap_dirty(1) - display amount of RAM a process uses hard
proc_iomem_count(1) - show MMIO region sizes
qplay(1) - convert QBASIC play strings to PCM
qtar(1) - faster interface to tar with file ordering
recursive_lower(1) - recursively lowercase all filenames
sourcefuncsize(1) - statistical analysis of code
spec-beautifier(1) - program to clean up RPM .spec files
su1(8) - what sudo should have done
utmp_register(1) - make entries in the utmp/wtmp database
vcsaview(8) - display a screen dump in VCSA format
vfontas(1) - VGA font file assembler
wktimer(1) - work timer

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

sudo apt-get -y install hxtools

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

You can also use apt command to install hxtools.

sudo apt -y install hxtools

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

sudo aptitude install hxtools

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