plistutil command not found

Introduction

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

plistutil: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: plistutil: command not found

Solutions to plistutil: command not found

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

In Ubuntu plistutil is provided by libplist-utils package.

libplist-utils is:

This package contains tools to convert Apple property list files from binary to XML and vice-versa. It’s part of the libimobiledevice stack, providing access to iDevices (iPod, iPhone, iPad …).

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

sudo apt-get -y install libplist-utils

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

You can also use apt command to install libplist-utils.

sudo apt -y install libplist-utils

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

sudo aptitude install libplist-utils

Summary

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