pinout command not found

Introduction

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

pinout: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: pinout: command not found

Solutions to pinout: command not found

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

In Ubuntu pinout is provided by python3-gpiozero package.

python3-gpiozero is:

gpiozero builds on various pin libraries to provide a set of classes designed to simplify interaction with devices connected to the GPIO pins, from simple buttons and LEDs, up to various add-on boards. The API tries to adhere closely to Python’s idioms and naming conventions, and features alternative programming paradigm approaches.

This is the Python 3 version of the package.

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

sudo apt-get -y install python3-gpiozero

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

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

sudo apt -y install python3-gpiozero

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

sudo aptitude install python3-gpiozero

Summary

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