autopep8 command not found

Introduction

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

autopep8: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: autopep8: command not found

Solutions to autopep8: command not found

How To Fix autopep8: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu autopep8 is provided by python3-autopep8 package.

python3-autopep8 is:

autopep8 automatically formats Python code to conform to the PEP 8 style guide. It uses the pep8 utility to determine what parts of the code needs to be formatted. autopep8 is capable of fixing most of the formatting issues that can be reported by pep8. This package is for Python3.

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

sudo apt-get -y install python3-autopep8

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

You can also use apt command to install python3-autopep8.

sudo apt -y install python3-autopep8

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

sudo aptitude install python3-autopep8

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix autopep8 command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.