rosconsole command not found

Introduction

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

rosconsole: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: rosconsole: command not found

Solutions to rosconsole: command not found

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

In Ubuntu rosconsole is provided by python3-rospy package.

python3-rospy is:

This package is part of Robot OS (ROS). The rospy client API enables Python programmers to quickly interface with ROS topics, services, and parameters. The design of rospy favors implementation speed (i.e. developer time) over runtime performance so that algorithms can be quickly prototyped and tested within ROS. It is also ideal for non-critical-path code, such as configuration and initialization code. Many of the ROS tools are written in rospy to take advantage of the type introspection capabilities.

Many of the ROS tools, such as rostopic and rosservice, are built on top of rospy.

This package contains the Python 3 library.

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

sudo apt-get -y install python3-rospy

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

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

sudo apt -y install python3-rospy

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

sudo aptitude install python3-rospy

Summary

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