dbus-binding-tool command not found

Introduction

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

dbus-binding-tool: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: dbus-binding-tool: command not found

Solutions to dbus-binding-tool: command not found

How To Fix dbus-binding-tool: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu dbus-binding-tool is provided by libdbus-glib-1-dev-bin package.

libdbus-glib-1-dev-bin is:

D-Bus is a message bus, used for sending messages between applications. Conceptually, it fits somewhere in between raw sockets and CORBA in terms of complexity.

This package is an implementation detail of libdbus-glib-1-dev and should not be depended on directly. It provides the dbus-binding-tool, used to generate code for a deprecated GLib-based D-Bus library. New code should use GDBus, part of GLib, instead.

See the dbus description for more information about D-Bus in general.

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

sudo apt-get -y install libdbus-glib-1-dev-bin

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

You can also use apt command to install libdbus-glib-1-dev-bin.

sudo apt -y install libdbus-glib-1-dev-bin

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

sudo aptitude install libdbus-glib-1-dev-bin

Summary

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