livereload command not found

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

Introduction

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

livereload: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: livereload: command not found

Solutions to livereload: command not found

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

In Ubuntu livereload is provided by python3-livereload package.

python3-livereload is:

It is really boring for Web developers to need to refresh their browser every time they save a (CSS, JavaScript, or HTML) file. LiveReload will take care of that for you, so that when you save a file, your browser will refresh itself - and what’s more, it can perform tasks such as compiling LESS to CSS before the browser reload.

This package contains the Python 3 version of livereload.

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

sudo apt-get -y install python3-livereload

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

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

sudo apt -y install python3-livereload

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

sudo aptitude install python3-livereload

Summary

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