plutil command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix plutil command not found error message

Introduction

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

plutil: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: plutil: command not found

Solutions to plutil: command not found

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

In Ubuntu plutil is provided by gnustep-base-runtime package.

gnustep-base-runtime is:

The GNUstep Base Library is a powerful fast library of general-purpose, non-graphical Objective C classes, inspired by the OpenStep API but implementing Apple and GNU additions to the API as well.

This package contains the runtime support files needed by GNUstep applications.

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

sudo apt-get -y install gnustep-base-runtime

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

You can also use apt command to install gnustep-base-runtime.

sudo apt -y install gnustep-base-runtime

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

sudo aptitude install gnustep-base-runtime

Summary

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