rosdistro_build_cache command not found

Introduction

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

rosdistro_build_cache: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: rosdistro_build_cache: command not found

Solutions to rosdistro_build_cache: command not found

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

In Ubuntu rosdistro_build_cache is provided by python3-rosdistro package.

python3-rosdistro is:

This package is part of Robot OS (ROS). The rosdistro tool allows you to get access to the full dependency tree and the vcs information of all packages and repositories.

rosdistro is a file format for managing ROS Distributions and the ROS stacks they contain. This file format is used as input to a variety of tools in the ROS build and release toolchain, from stack release tools to rosdoc. The rosdistro format has changed for Catkin-based repositories.

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-rosdistro

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

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

sudo apt -y install python3-rosdistro

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

sudo aptitude install python3-rosdistro

Summary

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