heat-engine command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix heat-engine command not found error message

Introduction

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

heat-engine: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: heat-engine: command not found

Solutions to heat-engine: command not found

How To Fix heat-engine: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu heat-engine is provided by python3-heat package.

python3-heat is:

Heat is a service to orchestrate multiple composite cloud applications using templates, through both an OpenStack-native ReST API and a CloudFormation-compatible Query API.

This package contains the Python 3 libraries.

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

sudo apt-get -y install python3-heat

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

You can also use apt command to install python3-heat.

sudo apt -y install python3-heat

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

sudo aptitude install python3-heat

Summary

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