appstream-generator command not found

Introduction

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

appstream-generator: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: appstream-generator: command not found

Solutions to appstream-generator: command not found

How To Fix appstream-generator: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu appstream-generator is provided by appstream-generator package.

appstream-generator is:

AppStream is a cross-distribution effort for creating and sharing metadata of software components available in the package repositories of a distribution. It provides specifications for an unified software component metadata format as well as tools to read, write and validate the metadata.

This package contains a tool to generate collection metadata from package repositories. It will extract icons, download screenshots, validate and transform the metadata and return XML or YAML files that can be read by AppStream clients, such as software centers. The appstream-generator tool will also generate issue reports as JSON documents and HTML pages.

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

sudo apt-get -y install appstream-generator

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

You can also use apt command to install appstream-generator.

sudo apt -y install appstream-generator

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

sudo aptitude install appstream-generator

Summary

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