openstack command not found

Introduction

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

openstack: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: openstack: command not found

Solutions to openstack: command not found

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

In Ubuntu openstack is provided by python3-openstackclient package.

python3-openstackclient is:

python-openstackclient is a unified command-line client for the OpenStack APIs. It is a thin wrapper to the stock python-*client modules that implement the actual REST API client actions.

This is an implementation of the design goals shown in http://wiki.openstack.org/UnifiedCLI. The primary goal is to provide a unified shell command structure and a common language to describe operations in OpenStack.

This package contains the Python 3.x module.

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

sudo apt-get -y install python3-openstackclient

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

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

sudo apt -y install python3-openstackclient

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

sudo aptitude install python3-openstackclient

Summary

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