py7zr command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix py7zr command not found error message

Introduction

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

py7zr: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: py7zr: command not found

In Ubuntu py7zr is provided by python3-py7zr package.

python3-py7zr is:

py7zr is a library and command-line utility to support 7zip archive compression, decompression, encryption and decryption.

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

sudo apt-get -y install python3-py7zr

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

You can also use apt command to install python3-py7zr.

sudo apt -y install python3-py7zr

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

sudo aptitude install python3-py7zr

In this tutorial we learn how to fix py7zr command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.