pyvisa-shell command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix pyvisa-shell command not found error message

Introduction

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

pyvisa-shell: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: pyvisa-shell: command not found

In Ubuntu pyvisa-shell is provided by python3-pyvisa package.

python3-pyvisa is:

The VISA standard provides a common interface for communication with test and measurement equipment.

This package provides Python 3 bindings for VISA.

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

sudo apt-get -y install python3-pyvisa

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

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

sudo apt -y install python3-pyvisa

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

sudo aptitude install python3-pyvisa

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