rosdep-source command not found

Introduction

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

rosdep-source: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: rosdep-source: command not found

Solutions to rosdep-source: command not found

How To Fix rosdep-source: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu rosdep-source is provided by python3-rosdep2 package.

python3-rosdep2 is:

This package is part of Robot OS (ROS). It is a command-line tool for installing system dependencies on a variety of platforms. For end-users, rosdep helps you install system dependencies for software that you are building from source. For developers, rosdep simplifies the problem of installing system dependencies on different platforms.

This package installs the library for Python 3.

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

sudo apt-get -y install python3-rosdep2

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

You can also use apt command to install python3-rosdep2.

sudo apt -y install python3-rosdep2

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

sudo aptitude install python3-rosdep2

Summary

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