intltool-prepare command not found

Introduction

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

intltool-prepare: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: intltool-prepare: command not found

Solutions to intltool-prepare: command not found

How To Fix intltool-prepare: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu intltool-prepare is provided by intltool package.

intltool is:

Automatically extracts translatable strings from oaf, glade, bonobo ui, nautilus theme and other XML files into the po files.

Automatically merges translations from po files back into .oaf files (encoding to be 7-bit clean). The merging mechanism can also be extended to support other types of XML files.

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

sudo apt-get -y install intltool

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

You can also use apt command to install intltool.

sudo apt -y install intltool

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

sudo aptitude install intltool

Summary

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