glance-rootwrap command not found

Introduction

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

glance-rootwrap: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: glance-rootwrap: command not found

Solutions to glance-rootwrap: command not found

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

In Ubuntu glance-rootwrap is provided by python3-glance-store package.

python3-glance-store 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 package contains the Python 3.x module for the Glance’s stores.

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

sudo apt-get -y install python3-glance-store

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

You can also use apt command to install python3-glance-store.

sudo apt -y install python3-glance-store

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

sudo aptitude install python3-glance-store

Summary

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