ppserver command not found

Introduction

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

ppserver: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: ppserver: command not found

Solutions to ppserver: command not found

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

In Ubuntu ppserver is provided by python3-ppft package.

python3-ppft is:

ppft is a fork of Parallel Python, and is developed as part of pathos: https://github.com/uqfoundation/pathos

Parallel Python module (pp) provides an easy and efficient way to create parallel-enabled applications for SMP computers and clusters. pp module features cross-platform portability and dynamic load balancing. Thus application written with pp will parallelize efficiently even on heterogeneous and multi-platform clusters (including clusters running other application with variable CPU loads). Visit http://www.parallelpython.com for further information.

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

sudo apt-get -y install python3-ppft

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

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

sudo apt -y install python3-ppft

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

sudo aptitude install python3-ppft

Summary

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