sfactor command not found

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

Introduction

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

sfactor: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: sfactor: command not found

Solutions to sfactor: command not found

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

In Ubuntu sfactor is provided by xmlbeans package.

xmlbeans is:

XMLBeans is a technology for accessing XML by binding it to Java types.

XMLBeans provides several ways to get at the XML, including:

  • Through XML schema that has been compiled to generate Java types that represent schema types. In this way, you can access instances of the schema through JavaBeans-style accessors after the fashion of “getFoo” and “setFoo”. The XMLBeans API also allows you to reflect into the XML schema itself through an XML Schema Object model.
  • A cursor model through which you can traverse the full XML infoset.
  • Support for XML DOM.

This package provide some command-line tools:

  • dumpxsb: XSB File Dumper
  • inst2xsd: Instance to Schema Tool
  • scomp: Schema Compiler
  • sdownload: Schema Downloader
  • sfactor: Schema Factoring Tool
  • svalidate: Streaming Instance Validator
  • xsdvalidate: Instance Validator
  • xpretty: XML Pretty Printer
  • xsd2inst: Schema to Instance Tool
  • xsdtree: Schema Type Hierarchy Printer
  • xstc: Invoke XSTC

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

sudo apt-get -y install xmlbeans

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

You can also use apt command to install xmlbeans.

sudo apt -y install xmlbeans

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

sudo aptitude install xmlbeans

Summary

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