xml-rpc-api2txt command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix xml-rpc-api2txt command not found error message

Introduction

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

xml-rpc-api2txt: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: xml-rpc-api2txt: command not found

Solutions to xml-rpc-api2txt: command not found

How To Fix xml-rpc-api2txt: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu xml-rpc-api2txt is provided by xmlrpc-api-utils package.

xmlrpc-api-utils is:

XML-RPC is a quick-and-easy way to make procedure calls over the Internet. It converts the procedure call into an XML document, sends it to a remote server using HTTP, and gets back the response as XML.

This package contains two programs:

  • xml-rpc-api2cpp, a utility for generating C++ wrapper classes based on an XML-RPC API, obtained by interrogating an XML-RPC server.
  • xml-rpc-api2txt, a utility for printing out an XML-RPC API as a text file. The API is obtained by interrogating an XML-RPC server.

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

sudo apt-get -y install xmlrpc-api-utils

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

You can also use apt command to install xmlrpc-api-utils.

sudo apt -y install xmlrpc-api-utils

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

sudo aptitude install xmlrpc-api-utils

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix xml-rpc-api2txt command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.