breathe-apidoc command not found

Introduction

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

breathe-apidoc: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: breathe-apidoc: command not found

Solutions to breathe-apidoc: command not found

How To Fix breathe-apidoc: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu breathe-apidoc is provided by python3-breathe package.

python3-breathe is:

Breathe provides a bridge between the Sphinx and doxygen documentation systems. It enables Sphinx to generate autodoc for languages other than Python with the help of doxygen. It also allows one to embed reStructuredText in doxygen markup.

This package provides the module for Python 3.

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

sudo apt-get -y install python3-breathe

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

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

sudo apt -y install python3-breathe

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

sudo aptitude install python3-breathe

Summary

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