isort command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix isort command not found error message

Introduction

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

isort: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: isort: command not found

Solutions to isort: command not found

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

In Ubuntu isort is provided by isort package.

isort is:

isort is a Python utility / library to sort imports alphabetically, and automatically separated into sections. It provides a command line utility, Python library and plugins for various editors to quickly sort all your imports.

This package contains the isort utility.

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

sudo apt-get -y install isort

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

You can also use apt command to install isort.

sudo apt -y install isort

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

sudo aptitude install isort

Summary

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