roslaunch-complete command not found

Introduction

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

roslaunch-complete: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: roslaunch-complete: command not found

Solutions to roslaunch-complete: command not found

How To Fix roslaunch-complete: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu roslaunch-complete is provided by python3-roslaunch package.

python3-roslaunch is:

This package is part of Robot OS (ROS). roslaunch is a tool for easily launching multiple ROS nodes locally and remotely via SSH, as well as setting parameters on the Parameter Server. It includes options to automatically respawn processes that have already died. roslaunch takes in one or more XML configuration files (with the launch extension) that specify the parameters to set and nodes to launch, as well as the machines that they should be run on.

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-roslaunch

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

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

sudo apt -y install python3-roslaunch

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

sudo aptitude install python3-roslaunch

Summary

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