xupdate command not found

Introduction

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

xupdate: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: xupdate: command not found

Solutions to xupdate: command not found

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

In Ubuntu xupdate is provided by libxml-xupdate-libxml-perl package.

libxml-xupdate-libxml-perl is:

XUpdate is a language for expressing modifications to be performed on an XML document, and XML::XUpdate::LibXML provides the methods for applying such updates. The module implements the XUpdate format as described in the latest XUpdate Working Draft.

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

sudo apt-get -y install libxml-xupdate-libxml-perl

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

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

sudo apt -y install libxml-xupdate-libxml-perl

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

sudo aptitude install libxml-xupdate-libxml-perl

Summary

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