rosbag command not found

Introduction

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

rosbag: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: rosbag: command not found

Solutions to rosbag: command not found

How To Fix rosbag: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu rosbag is provided by python3-rosbag package.

python3-rosbag is:

This package is part of Robot OS (ROS). It provides a command-line tool for working with bags (ROS messages stores). The corresponding librosbag package provides corresponding C++ and Python APIs.

This package contains the Python 3 library.

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

sudo apt-get -y install python3-rosbag

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

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

sudo apt -y install python3-rosbag

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

sudo aptitude install python3-rosbag

Summary

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