ospurge command not found

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

Introduction

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

ospurge: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: ospurge: command not found

Solutions to ospurge: command not found

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

In Ubuntu ospurge is provided by python3-ospurge package.

python3-ospurge is:

OSPurge is a standalone client-side tool that aims at deleting all resources, taking into account their interdependencies, in a specified OpenStack project.

OSPurge ensures in a quick and automated way that no resource is left behind when a project is deleted.

OSPurge can be used by a cloud administrator, this means a user with the admin role, to cleanup any project or by a non-privileged user to cleanup his own project.

At the moment it is possible to purge the following resources from a project:

Floating IP
Glance Images
Instances
Networks
Routers
Security groups
Swift containers
Swift objects
Volumes / Volume snapshots / Volume backups

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

sudo apt-get -y install python3-ospurge

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

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

sudo apt -y install python3-ospurge

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

sudo aptitude install python3-ospurge

Summary

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