aodh-api command not found

Introduction

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

aodh-api: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: aodh-api: command not found

Solutions to aodh-api: command not found

How To Fix aodh-api: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu aodh-api is provided by python3-aodh package.

python3-aodh is:

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This package contains the Python 3 libraries that are needed for all parts of Aodh.

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

sudo apt-get -y install python3-aodh

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

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

sudo apt -y install python3-aodh

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

sudo aptitude install python3-aodh

Summary

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