fava command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix fava command not found error message

Introduction

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

fava: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: fava: command not found

In Ubuntu fava is provided by python3-fava package.

python3-fava is:

Fava is a web interface for the plain-text, double-entry bookkeeping tool and language Beancount.

An online demo of Fava is available at https://fava.pythonanywhere.com .

For more information about Beancount itself see the beancount Debian package.

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

sudo apt-get -y install python3-fava

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

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

sudo apt -y install python3-fava

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

sudo aptitude install python3-fava

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