salt-factories command not found

Introduction

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

salt-factories: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: salt-factories: command not found

Solutions to salt-factories: command not found

How To Fix salt-factories: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu salt-factories is provided by python3-saltfactories package.

python3-saltfactories is:

This package provides a PyTest plug-in that allows one to use the Salt daemons in tests. This plug-in is used in Salt’s test suite. This is the successor of python3-pytestsalt, this time focused on simplicity and extensibility.

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

sudo apt-get -y install python3-saltfactories

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

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

sudo apt -y install python3-saltfactories

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

sudo aptitude install python3-saltfactories

Summary

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