pyct command not found

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

Introduction

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

pyct: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: pyct: command not found

In Ubuntu pyct is provided by python3-pyct package.

python3-pyct is:

Utility package that includes:

pyct.cmd: Makes various commands available to other packages. (Currently no sophisticated plugin system, just a try import/except in the other packages.) The same commands are available from within Python. Can either add new subcommands to an existing argparse based command if the module has an existing command, or create the entire command if the module has no existing command. Currently, there are commands for copying examples and fetching data. See
pyct.build: Provides various commands to help package building, primarily as a convenience for project maintainers.

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

sudo apt-get -y install python3-pyct

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

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

sudo apt -y install python3-pyct

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

sudo aptitude install python3-pyct

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