xml2odf command not found

Introduction

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

xml2odf: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: xml2odf: command not found

Solutions to xml2odf: command not found

How To Fix xml2odf: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu xml2odf is provided by python-odf-tools package.

python-odf-tools is:

Simple tool collection to manipulate ODF files, like converting CSV to spreadsheet, e-mails to text files, text files to HTML, including images given by URLs, filling user fields with data tables, and so on.

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

sudo apt-get -y install python-odf-tools

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

You can also use apt command to install python-odf-tools.

sudo apt -y install python-odf-tools

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

sudo aptitude install python-odf-tools

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix xml2odf command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.