xmlpretty command not found

Introduction

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

xmlpretty: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: xmlpretty: command not found

Solutions to xmlpretty: command not found

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

In Ubuntu xmlpretty is provided by libxml-handler-yawriter-perl package.

libxml-handler-yawriter-perl is:

The XML::Handler::YAWriter implements Yet Another XML::Handler::Writer. The reasons for this one are needing a flexible escaping technique, and wanting some kind of pretty printing.

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

sudo apt-get -y install libxml-handler-yawriter-perl

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

You can also use apt command to install libxml-handler-yawriter-perl.

sudo apt -y install libxml-handler-yawriter-perl

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

sudo aptitude install libxml-handler-yawriter-perl

Summary

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