plutil equivalent in Ubuntu?

I've been using plutil (built-in in OSX) to read plists. However, I'm unable to find that on Linux's apt-get. Does anyone have an idea which package plutil is in? I'm currently using Ubuntu Server 14.04.3.

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plistutil is the command you need to be using in Linux.

Install the package using

sudo apt-get install libplist-utils

Then either replace all plutil to plistutil in your script, or create a symlink (assuming your plistutil was installed at /usr/bin/plistutil) like so:

ln -s /usr/bin/plistutil /usr/bin/plutil

To determine where your plistutil was installed, run which plistutil.

In case it's still relevant, Screenplay currently maintains an open-source, cross-platform, drop-in replacement for plutil:

It's based on Facebook's xcbuild (a tool developed by them to build xcode projects on Linux), but stripped down to just provide plist-editting functionality.

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