metadata-cleaner command not found

Introduction

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

metadata-cleaner: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: metadata-cleaner: command not found

Solutions to metadata-cleaner: command not found

How To Fix metadata-cleaner: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu metadata-cleaner is provided by metadata-cleaner package.

metadata-cleaner is:

Metadata within a file can tell a lot about you. Cameras record data about when a picture was taken and what camera was used. Office applications automatically add author and company information to documents and spreadsheets. Maybe you do not want to disclose those information.

This tool allows you to view metadata in your files and to get rid of them as much as possible.

Under the hood, it relies on mat2 to parse and remove the metadata.

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

sudo apt-get -y install metadata-cleaner

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

You can also use apt command to install metadata-cleaner.

sudo apt -y install metadata-cleaner

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

sudo aptitude install metadata-cleaner

Summary

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