python_package_cache command not found

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

Introduction

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

python_package_cache: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: python_package_cache: command not found

In Ubuntu python_package_cache is provided by coop-computing-tools package.

coop-computing-tools is:

This is a collection of software that help users to share resources in a complex, heterogeneous, and unreliable computing environment. This includes:

Chirp: A personal filesystem and I/O protocol that allows unprivileged users to share space securely, efficiently, and conveniently. When combined with Parrot, Chirp allows users to create custom wide-area distributed filesystems.
Parrot: A transparent user-level virtual filesystem that allows any ordinary program to be attached to a remote storage device such as an FTP server or a Chirp server.
Makeflow: A workflow system for parallel and distributed computing that uses a language very similar to Make.
Work Queue: A system and API for building master-worker style programs that scale up to thousands of processors.
All Pairs: A computational abstraction for running very large Cartesian products.
Wavefront: A computational abstraction for running very large dynamic programming problems.
The Fault Tolerant Shell: A high-level programming language that allows users to combine the ease of shell scripting, the power of distributed programming, and the precision of compiled languages. Basically, parallel programming and exception handling for scripts.

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

sudo apt-get -y install coop-computing-tools

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

You can also use apt command to install coop-computing-tools.

sudo apt -y install coop-computing-tools

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

sudo aptitude install coop-computing-tools

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