actool command not found

Introduction

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

actool: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: actool: command not found

Solutions to actool: command not found

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

In Ubuntu actool is provided by appc-spec package.

appc-spec is:

App Container (appc) is a well-specified and community developed specification for application containers. appc defines several independent but composable aspects involved in running application containers, including an image format, runtime environment, and discovery mechanism for application containers.

This package provides “actool” utility for the App Container (appc) specification and technical details on how an appc image is downloaded over a network, cryptographically verified, and executed on a host.

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

sudo apt-get -y install appc-spec

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

You can also use apt command to install appc-spec.

sudo apt -y install appc-spec

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

sudo aptitude install appc-spec

Summary

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