rocket_launcher command not found

Introduction

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

rocket_launcher: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: rocket_launcher: command not found

Solutions to rocket_launcher: command not found

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

In Ubuntu rocket_launcher is provided by bottlerocket package.

bottlerocket is:

A command-line utility to interact with the Firecracker version of X10’s home control devices (wireless home automation to control lights, cameras, appliances via a small transmitter that plugs into the standard RS-232 serial port of a computer).

Also included is rocket launcher, a graphical frontend to bottlerocket. If you want this functionality you should have wish (tk8.3 or tk8.4 - the Tcl/Tk interpreter) installed.

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

sudo apt-get -y install bottlerocket

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

You can also use apt command to install bottlerocket.

sudo apt -y install bottlerocket

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

sudo aptitude install bottlerocket

Summary

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