detect-requirements command not found

Introduction

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

detect-requirements: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: detect-requirements: command not found

Solutions to detect-requirements: command not found

How To Fix detect-requirements: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu detect-requirements is provided by python3-requirements-detector package.

python3-requirements-detector is:

Requirements-detector could be run either as a module or with its CLI tool (detect-requirements). It scans for and lists the project’s requirements out of several sources for them.

This package contains the CLI tool and the modules for Python 3.

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

sudo apt-get -y install python3-requirements-detector

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

You can also use apt command to install python3-requirements-detector.

sudo apt -y install python3-requirements-detector

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

sudo aptitude install python3-requirements-detector

Summary

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