roscreate-pkg command not found

Introduction

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

roscreate-pkg: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: roscreate-pkg: command not found

Solutions to roscreate-pkg: command not found

How To Fix roscreate-pkg: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu roscreate-pkg is provided by python3-roscreate package.

python3-roscreate is:

This package is part of Robot OS (ROS). It provides roscreate-pkg which creates empty ROS package templates and thus addresses the common problem of packages being created using pre-existing packages, which leads to errors in build files and manifests. The tool creates a new package directory, including the appropriate build and manifest files.

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-roscreate

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

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

sudo apt -y install python3-roscreate

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

sudo aptitude install python3-roscreate

Summary

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