os-collect-config command not found

Introduction

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

os-collect-config: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: os-collect-config: command not found

Solutions to os-collect-config: command not found

How To Fix os-collect-config: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu os-collect-config is provided by python3-os-collect-config package.

python3-os-collect-config is:

os-collect-config collects data from defined configuration sources and runs a defined hook whenever the metadata has changed. You must define what sources to collect configuration data from in os-collect-config configuration file at /etc/os-collect-config/sources.ini. These sources will be polled and whenever any of them changes, default.command will be run. A file will be written to the cache dir, os_config_files.json, which will be a json list of the file paths to the current copy of each metadata source. This list will also be set as a colon separated list in the environment variable OS_CONFIG_FILES for the command that is run.

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

sudo apt-get -y install python3-os-collect-config

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

You can also use apt command to install python3-os-collect-config.

sudo apt -y install python3-os-collect-config

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

sudo aptitude install python3-os-collect-config

Summary

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