python3-futurize command not found

Introduction

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

python3-futurize: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: python3-futurize: command not found

Solutions to python3-futurize: command not found

How To Fix python3-futurize: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu python3-futurize is provided by python3-future package.

python3-future is:

Future is the missing compatibility layer between Python 2 and Python 3. It allows one to use a single, clean Python 3.x-compatible codebase to support both Python 2 and Python 3 with minimal overhead.

The imports have no effect on Python 3. On Python 2, they shadow the corresponding builtins, which normally have different semantics on Python 3 versus 2, to provide their Python 3 semantics.

This package contains the Python 3.x module.

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

sudo apt-get -y install python3-future

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

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

sudo apt -y install python3-future

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

sudo aptitude install python3-future

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix python3-futurize command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.