bashate command not found

Introduction

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

bashate: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: bashate: command not found

Solutions to bashate: command not found

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

In Ubuntu bashate is provided by python3-bashate package.

python3-bashate is:

This program attempts to be an automated style checker for bash scripts to fill the same part of code review that pep8 does in most OpenStack projects. It started from humble beginnings in the DevStack project, and will continue to evolve over time.

This package contains the Python 3.x module and command line utility.

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

sudo apt-get -y install python3-bashate

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

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

sudo apt -y install python3-bashate

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

sudo aptitude install python3-bashate

Summary

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