rgs command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix rgs command not found error message

Introduction

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

rgs: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: rgs: command not found

Solutions to rgs: command not found

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

In Ubuntu rgs is provided by rgpio-tools package.

rgpio-tools is:

The rgpiod daemon provides remote control of the GPIO pins of the local computer via TCP sockets. It includes facilities for software PWM, callbacks on level change, I2C, SPI, and UART wrappers. It also provides file handling, script and network facilities.

This package contains the rgs shell utility which can talk to the rgpiod daemon.

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

sudo apt-get -y install rgpio-tools

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

You can also use apt command to install rgpio-tools.

sudo apt -y install rgpio-tools

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

sudo aptitude install rgpio-tools

Summary

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