plac_runner.py command not found

Introduction

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

plac_runner.py: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: plac_runner.py: command not found

Solutions to plac_runner.py: command not found

How To Fix plac_runner.py: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu plac_runner.py is provided by python3-plac package.

python3-plac is:

Technically plac is just a simple wrapper over argparse which hides most of its complexity by using a declarative interface: the argument parser is inferred rather than written down imperatively.

plac is targetting especially unsophisticated users, programmers, sys-admins, scientists and in general people writing throw-away scripts for themselves, choosing the command-line is surprisingly scalable upwards, even without using the underlying argparse.

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

sudo apt-get -y install python3-plac

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

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

sudo apt -y install python3-plac

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

sudo aptitude install python3-plac

Summary

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