pywws-testweatherstation command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix pywws-testweatherstation command not found error message

Introduction

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

pywws-testweatherstation: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: pywws-testweatherstation: command not found

Solutions to pywws-testweatherstation: command not found

How To Fix pywws-testweatherstation: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu pywws-testweatherstation is provided by python3-pywws package.

python3-pywws is:

This package contains a collection of Python modules to read, store and process data from popular USB wireless weather stations such as Elecsa AstroTouch 6975, Watson W-8681, WH-1080PC, WH1080, WH1081, WH3080 etc. Any model that is supplied with the EasyWeather Windows software might be compatible.

The software has been developed to run in a low power, low memory environment such as a Raspberry Pi. It can be used to create graphs and web pages showing recent weather readings, typically updated every hour. It can also send live data to services such as Weather Underground and post messages to Twitter.

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

sudo apt-get -y install python3-pywws

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

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

sudo apt -y install python3-pywws

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

sudo aptitude install python3-pywws

Summary

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