glance command not found

Introduction

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

glance: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: glance: command not found

Solutions to glance: command not found

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

In Ubuntu glance is provided by python3-glanceclient package.

python3-glanceclient is:

The Glance project provides services for discovering, registering, and retrieving virtual machine images over the cloud. They may be stand-alone services, or may be used to deliver images from object stores, such as OpenStack’s Swift service, to Nova’s compute nodes.

This is a client for the Glance which uses the OpenStack Image API. There’s a Python API (the “glanceclient” module), and a command-line script (“glance”).

This package provides the Python 3.x module.

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

sudo apt-get -y install python3-glanceclient

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

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

sudo apt -y install python3-glanceclient

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

sudo aptitude install python3-glanceclient

Summary

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