pflags command not found

Introduction

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

pflags: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: pflags: command not found

Solutions to pflags: command not found

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

In Ubuntu pflags is provided by python3-linux-procfs package.

python3-linux-procfs is:

Python abstractions to extract information from the Linux kernel /proc files.

The proc filesystem is a pseudo-filesystem which provides an interface to kernel data structures. This package provides a means to query that system from a Python module.

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

sudo apt-get -y install python3-linux-procfs

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

You can also use apt command to install python3-linux-procfs.

sudo apt -y install python3-linux-procfs

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

sudo aptitude install python3-linux-procfs

Summary

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