pb-api-shell command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix pb-api-shell command not found error message

Introduction

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

pb-api-shell: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: pb-api-shell: command not found

Solutions to pb-api-shell: command not found

How To Fix pb-api-shell: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu pb-api-shell is provided by profitbricks-api-tools package.

profitbricks-api-tools is:

This package contains command line tools that use the public API from ProfitBricks. It contains following scripts:

  • pb-api-shell - Interactive Python shell for the ProfitBricks REST API

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

sudo apt-get -y install profitbricks-api-tools

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

You can also use apt command to install profitbricks-api-tools.

sudo apt -y install profitbricks-api-tools

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

sudo aptitude install profitbricks-api-tools

Summary

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