paster3 command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix paster3 command not found error message

Introduction

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

paster3: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: paster3: command not found

Solutions to paster3: command not found

How To Fix paster3: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu paster3 is provided by python3-pastescript package.

python3-pastescript is:

Paster is pluggable command-line frontend, including commands to setup package file layouts

Built-in features:

  • Creating file layouts for packages. For instance a setuptools-ready file layout.
  • Serving up web applications, with configuration based on paste.deploy

This package provides the Python 3.x module.

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

sudo apt-get -y install python3-pastescript

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

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

sudo apt -y install python3-pastescript

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

sudo aptitude install python3-pastescript

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix paster3 command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.