catkin_package_version command not found

Introduction

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

catkin_package_version: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: catkin_package_version: command not found

Solutions to catkin_package_version: command not found

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

In Ubuntu catkin_package_version is provided by python3-catkin-pkg package.

python3-catkin-pkg is:

This package is part of Robot OS (ROS). It is a library for retrieving information about catkin packages. Catkin contains CMake macros that are useful in the development of ROS-related systems. ROS provides libraries and tools to help software developers create robot applications.

This package is a Python 3 module needed to use Catkin.

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

sudo apt-get -y install python3-catkin-pkg

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

You can also use apt command to install python3-catkin-pkg.

sudo apt -y install python3-catkin-pkg

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

sudo aptitude install python3-catkin-pkg

Summary

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