intake command not found

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

Introduction

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

intake: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: intake: command not found

In Ubuntu intake is provided by python3-intake package.

python3-intake is:

Intake is a lightweight set of tools for loading and sharing data in data science projects. Intake helps you:

Load data from a variety of formats into containers you already know, like Pandas dataframes, Python lists, NumPy arrays and more.
Convert boilerplate data loading code into reusable intake plugins.
Describe data sets in catalog files for easy reuse and sharing between projects and with others.
Share catalog information (and data sets) over the network with the Intake server.

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

sudo apt-get -y install python3-intake

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

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

sudo apt -y install python3-intake

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

sudo aptitude install python3-intake

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