pymetar command not found

Introduction

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

pymetar: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: pymetar: command not found

Solutions to pymetar: command not found

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

In Ubuntu pymetar is provided by python3-pymetar package.

python3-pymetar is:

The pymetar Python interface provides full and easy to use access to the METAR reports available from the NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, http://www.noaa.gov).

METAR (METeorological Aviation Report) is the international standard code format for hourly surface weather observations.

This package consists of the Python library itself and a command line tool for end users.

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

sudo apt-get -y install python3-pymetar

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

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

sudo apt -y install python3-pymetar

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

sudo aptitude install python3-pymetar

Summary

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