pyls command not found

Introduction

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

pyls: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: pyls: command not found

Solutions to pyls: command not found

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

In Ubuntu pyls is provided by python3-pyls package.

python3-pyls is:

The Language Server Protocol is designed to standardise how language servers and development tools communicate. This package provides a Python implementation.

A number of optional providers can be enabled if the requisite dependencies are installed, which are listed as Suggests.

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

sudo apt-get -y install python3-pyls

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

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

sudo apt -y install python3-pyls

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

sudo aptitude install python3-pyls

Summary

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