rosmsg-proto command not found

Introduction

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

rosmsg-proto: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: rosmsg-proto: command not found

Solutions to rosmsg-proto: command not found

How To Fix rosmsg-proto: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu rosmsg-proto is provided by python3-rosmsg package.

python3-rosmsg is:

This package is part of Robot OS (ROS). rosmsg is a command-line tool for displaying information about ROS Message types. rossrv is a command-line tool for displaying information about ROS Service types.

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-rosmsg

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

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

sudo apt -y install python3-rosmsg

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

sudo aptitude install python3-rosmsg

Summary

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