dask-scheduler command not found

Introduction

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

dask-scheduler: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: dask-scheduler: command not found

Solutions to dask-scheduler: command not found

How To Fix dask-scheduler: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu dask-scheduler is provided by python3-distributed package.

python3-distributed is:

Dask.distributed is a lightweight library for distributed computing in Python. It extends both the concurrent.futures and dask APIs to moderate sized clusters.

This contains the Python 3 version

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

sudo apt-get -y install python3-distributed

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

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

sudo apt -y install python3-distributed

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

sudo aptitude install python3-distributed

Summary

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