protoc-gen-mypy command not found

Introduction

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

protoc-gen-mypy: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: protoc-gen-mypy: command not found

Solutions to protoc-gen-mypy: command not found

How To Fix protoc-gen-mypy: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu protoc-gen-mypy is provided by mypy-protobuf package.

mypy-protobuf is:

This package provides a plugin for protoc to allow it to generate typing annotations for Python.

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

sudo apt-get -y install mypy-protobuf

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

You can also use apt command to install mypy-protobuf.

sudo apt -y install mypy-protobuf

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

sudo aptitude install mypy-protobuf

Summary

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