python-gitlab command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix python-gitlab command not found error message

Introduction

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

python-gitlab: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: python-gitlab: command not found

In Ubuntu python-gitlab is provided by gitlab-cli package.

gitlab-cli is:

Command-line tool to interact with the GitLab v4 server API. The executable is named python-gitlab.

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

sudo apt-get -y install gitlab-cli

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

You can also use apt command to install gitlab-cli.

sudo apt -y install gitlab-cli

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

sudo aptitude install gitlab-cli

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