heat command not found

Introduction

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

heat: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: heat: command not found

Solutions to heat: command not found

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

In Ubuntu heat is provided by python3-heatclient package.

python3-heatclient is:

Heat is a service to orchestrate multiple composite cloud applications using templates, through both an OpenStack-native ReST API and a CloudFormation-compatible Query API.

This is a client for the OpenStack Heat API. There’s a Python API (the heatclient module), and a command-line script (heat). Each implements 100% of the OpenStack Heat API.

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-heatclient

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

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

sudo apt -y install python3-heatclient

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

sudo aptitude install python3-heatclient

Summary

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