logilab-pytest command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix logilab-pytest command not found error message

Introduction

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

logilab-pytest: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: logilab-pytest: command not found

Solutions to logilab-pytest: command not found

How To Fix logilab-pytest: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu logilab-pytest is provided by python3-logilab-common package.

python3-logilab-common is:

logilab-common is a collection of low-level Python packages and modules, designed to ease:

  • handling command line options and configuration files
  • writing interactive command line tools
  • manipulation files and character strings
  • interfacing to OmniORB
  • generating SQL queries
  • running unit tests
  • manipulating tree structures
  • accessing RDBMS (currently postgreSQL, MySQL and sqlite)
  • generating text and HTML reports
  • logging
  • parsing XML processing instructions

This package contains the Python 3 version of logilab-common.

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

sudo apt-get -y install python3-logilab-common

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

You can also use apt command to install python3-logilab-common.

sudo apt -y install python3-logilab-common

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

sudo aptitude install python3-logilab-common

Summary

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