roslocate command not found

Introduction

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

roslocate: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: roslocate: command not found

Solutions to roslocate: command not found

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

In Ubuntu roslocate is provided by python3-rosinstall package.

python3-rosinstall is:

This package is part of Robot OS (ROS). The rosinstall package provides a Python API for interacting with a source code workspace as well as a group of command line tools. Rosinstall leverages the vcstools package for source control and stores its state in rosinstall files.

Using rosinstall you can update several folders using a variety of SCMs (SVN, Mercurial, git, Bazaar) with just one command.

This package installs the library for Python 3.

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

sudo apt-get -y install python3-rosinstall

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

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

sudo apt -y install python3-rosinstall

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

sudo aptitude install python3-rosinstall

Summary

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