xmlformat command not found

Introduction

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

xmlformat: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: xmlformat: command not found

Solutions to xmlformat: command not found

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

In Ubuntu xmlformat is provided by xmlformat-ruby package.

xmlformat-ruby is:

xmlformat is a configurable formatter (or “pretty-printer”) for XML documents. It provides control over indentation, line-breaking, and text wrapping. These properties can be defined on a per-element basis.

xmlformat provides improved diagnostic information when a document is not well-formed. (Prints line and token number, and stack trace).

This is the ruby implementation

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

sudo apt-get -y install xmlformat-ruby

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

You can also use apt command to install xmlformat-ruby.

sudo apt -y install xmlformat-ruby

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

sudo aptitude install xmlformat-ruby

Summary

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