natsort command not found

Introduction

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

natsort: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: natsort: command not found

Solutions to natsort: command not found

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

In Ubuntu natsort is provided by python3-natsort package.

python3-natsort is:

natsort lets you apply natural sorting to your sequences easily, for example:

from natsort import natsorted a = [‘a2’, ‘a9’, ‘a1’, ‘a4’, ‘a10’] data = [[‘a1’, ‘a5’], [‘a1’, ‘a40’], [‘a10’, ‘a1’], [‘a2’, ‘a5’]] natsorted(a) [‘a1’, ‘a2’, ‘a4’, ‘a9’, ‘a10’ natsorted(data) [[‘a1’, ‘a5’], [‘a1’, ‘a40’], [‘a2’, ‘a5’], [‘a10’, ‘a1’]]

natsort identifies the numbers and sorts them separately from strings.

natsort comes with a shell script to use natural sorting in shell scripts. You can also execute natsort from the command line with Python -m natsort.

There exists another natural sorting package for Python called python-naturalsort. You may prefer that package if you wish to only sort version numbers.

This is the Python 3 version of the package.

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

sudo apt-get -y install python3-natsort

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

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

sudo apt -y install python3-natsort

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

sudo aptitude install python3-natsort

Summary

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