xmlrpc command not found

Introduction

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

xmlrpc: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: xmlrpc: command not found

Solutions to xmlrpc: command not found

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

In Ubuntu xmlrpc is provided by libxmlrpc-core-c3-dev package.

libxmlrpc-core-c3-dev is:

XML-RPC is a quick-and-easy way to make procedure calls over the Internet. It converts the procedure call into an XML document, sends it to a remote server using HTTP, and gets back the response as XML.

This library provides a modular implementation of XML-RPC for C.

Install this package if you wish to develop your own programs using this library.

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

sudo apt-get -y install libxmlrpc-core-c3-dev

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

You can also use apt command to install libxmlrpc-core-c3-dev.

sudo apt -y install libxmlrpc-core-c3-dev

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

sudo aptitude install libxmlrpc-core-c3-dev

Summary

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