designate-manage command not found

Introduction

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

designate-manage: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: designate-manage: command not found

Solutions to designate-manage: command not found

How To Fix designate-manage: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu designate-manage is provided by python3-designate package.

python3-designate is:

Designate provides DNSaaS services for OpenStack. It provides a multi-tenant REST API for domain & record management. It is Integrated with Keystone for authentication, and provides a framework in place to integrate with Nova and Neutron notifications (for auto-generated records). Designate supports PowerDNS and Bind9 out of the box.

This package provides the Python 3 libraries.

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

sudo apt-get -y install python3-designate

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

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

sudo apt -y install python3-designate

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

sudo aptitude install python3-designate

Summary

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