ipengine command not found

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

Introduction

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

ipengine: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: ipengine: command not found

In Ubuntu ipengine is provided by python3-ipyparallel package.

python3-ipyparallel is:

ipyparallel is a Python package and collection of CLI scripts for controlling clusters for Jupyter. ipyparallel is the new home of IPython.parallel.

ipyparallel contains the following command-line scripts:

ipcluster - start/stop a cluster
ipcontroller - start a scheduler
ipengine - start an engine

This package installs the Python 3 library and the CLI scripts.

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

sudo apt-get -y install python3-ipyparallel

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

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

sudo apt -y install python3-ipyparallel

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

sudo aptitude install python3-ipyparallel

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