xml2marc command not found

Introduction

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

xml2marc: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: xml2marc: command not found

Solutions to xml2marc: command not found

How To Fix xml2marc: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu xml2marc is provided by libmarc-xml-perl package.

libmarc-xml-perl is:

MARC::XML is an extension to the Marc::Record distribution for working with MARC21 data that is encoded as XML. The XML encoding used is the MARC21slim schema supplied by the Library of Congress. Installing MARC-XML automatically adds support for the additional file format for use with MARC::Batch.

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

sudo apt-get -y install libmarc-xml-perl

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

You can also use apt command to install libmarc-xml-perl.

sudo apt -y install libmarc-xml-perl

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

sudo aptitude install libmarc-xml-perl

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix xml2marc command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.