avro command not found

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

Introduction

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

avro: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: avro: command not found

In Ubuntu avro is provided by python3-avro package.

python3-avro is:

Apache Avro is a data serialization system providing

Rich data structures.
A compact, fast, binary data format.
A container file, to store persistent data.
Remote procedure call (RPC).
Simple integration with dynamic languages. Code generation is not required to read or write data files nor to use or implement RPC protocols. Code generation as an optional optimization, only worth implementing for statically typed languages.

This package installs the implementation as a Python 3 library.

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

sudo apt-get -y install python3-avro

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

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

sudo apt -y install python3-avro

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

sudo aptitude install python3-avro

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