pocketlint command not found

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

Introduction

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

pocketlint: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: pocketlint: command not found

In Ubuntu pocketlint is provided by python3-pocket-lint package.

python3-pocket-lint is:

Pocket-lint has several notable features:

Provides a consistent report of issues raised by the subordinate checkers.
Alternate Reports can be written to change the report, or integrate the report into another application.
Supports checking of multiple source types
Python syntax and style
Python doctest style
XML/HTML style and entities
CSS style
JavaScript syntax and style
Plain text
Supports reporting
Python doctests
CSS
XML/HTML

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

sudo apt-get -y install python3-pocket-lint

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

You can also use apt command to install python3-pocket-lint.

sudo apt -y install python3-pocket-lint

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

sudo aptitude install python3-pocket-lint

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