rosbuilder command not found

Introduction

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

rosbuilder: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: rosbuilder: command not found

Solutions to rosbuilder: command not found

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

In Ubuntu rosbuilder is provided by dh-ros package.

dh-ros is:

This package provides support for catkin and ament to build ROS and ROS 2 packages in Debian. It is particularly useful for upstream sources with multiple inter-dependent ROS packages, as it will figure out the correct build order automatically.

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

sudo apt-get -y install dh-ros

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

You can also use apt command to install dh-ros.

sudo apt -y install dh-ros

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

sudo aptitude install dh-ros

Summary

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