pyserial-ports command not found

Introduction

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

pyserial-ports: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: pyserial-ports: command not found

Solutions to pyserial-ports: command not found

How To Fix pyserial-ports: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu pyserial-ports is provided by python3-serial package.

python3-serial is:

This module encapsulates the access for the serial port. It provides back-ends for standard Python running on Windows, Linux, BSD (possibly any POSIX compliant system). The module named “serial” automatically selects the appropriate back-end.

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

sudo apt-get -y install python3-serial

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

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

sudo apt -y install python3-serial

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

sudo aptitude install python3-serial

Summary

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