thonny command not found

Introduction

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

thonny: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: thonny: command not found

Solutions to thonny: command not found

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

In Ubuntu thonny is provided by thonny package.

thonny is:

Thonny is a simple Python IDE with features useful for learning programming.

It comes with a debugger which is able to visualize all the conceptual steps taken to run a Python program (executing statements, evaluating expressions, maintaining the call stack). There is a GUI for installing 3rd party packages and special mode for learning about references.

See the homepage for more information and screenshots.

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

sudo apt-get -y install thonny

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

You can also use apt command to install thonny.

sudo apt -y install thonny

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

sudo aptitude install thonny

Summary

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