jenkins_invoke command not found

Introduction

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

jenkins_invoke: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: jenkins_invoke: command not found

Solutions to jenkins_invoke: command not found

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

In Ubuntu jenkins_invoke is provided by python3-jenkinsapi package.

python3-jenkinsapi is:

Jenkins is the market leading continuous integration system, originally created by Kohsuke Kawaguchi. This API makes Jenkins even easier to use by providing an easy to use conventional Python interface.

Jenkins (and its predecessor Hudson) are useful projects for automating common development tasks (e.g., unit-testing, production batches) - but they are somewhat Java-centric. Thankfully the designers have provided an excellent and complete REST interface. This library wraps up that interface as more conventional Python objects in order to make most Jenkins-oriented tasks simpler.

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

sudo apt-get -y install python3-jenkinsapi

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

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

sudo apt -y install python3-jenkinsapi

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

sudo aptitude install python3-jenkinsapi

Summary

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