rosinstall_generator command not found

Introduction

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

rosinstall_generator: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: rosinstall_generator: command not found

Solutions to rosinstall_generator: command not found

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

In Ubuntu rosinstall_generator is provided by python3-rosinstall-generator package.

python3-rosinstall-generator is:

This package is part of Robot OS (ROS). It contains a tool to generate rosinstall files which contain information about repositories with ROS packages/stacks. It always returns information about released packages - either to the gbp repositories for wet packages or to the tarball of dry stacks from the SVN release repository.

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-rosinstall-generator

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

You can also use apt command to install python3-rosinstall-generator.

sudo apt -y install python3-rosinstall-generator

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

sudo aptitude install python3-rosinstall-generator

Summary

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