ament_copyright command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix ament_copyright command not found error message

Introduction

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

ament_copyright: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: ament_copyright: command not found

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

In Ubuntu ament_copyright is provided by python3-ament-copyright package.

python3-ament-copyright is:

The ament build system is the most common way to build packages for ROS 2. This package provides the Python 3 module that adds copyright check support to ament.

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

sudo apt-get -y install python3-ament-copyright

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

You can also use apt command to install python3-ament-copyright.

sudo apt -y install python3-ament-copyright

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

sudo aptitude install python3-ament-copyright

Summary

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