validateDescriptor command not found

Introduction

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

validateDescriptor: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: validateDescriptor: command not found

Solutions to validateDescriptor: command not found

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

In Ubuntu validateDescriptor is provided by uima-utils package.

uima-utils is:

Apache UIMA is an implementation of the OASIS-UIMA specifications.

OASIS UIMA Committee: http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/uima/.

Unstructured Information Management applications are software systems that analyze large volumes of unstructured information in order to discover knowledge that is relevant to an end user.

An example UIM application might ingest plain text and identify entities, such as persons, places, organizations; or relations, such as works-for or located-at.

This package provides the UIMA tools : annotationViewer, cpeGui, documentAnalyzer, jcasgen, runAE, runCPE, runPearInstaller, runPearMerger, runPearPackager

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

sudo apt-get -y install uima-utils

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

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

sudo apt -y install uima-utils

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

sudo aptitude install uima-utils

Summary

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