rosmake command not found

Introduction

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

rosmake: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: rosmake: command not found

Solutions to rosmake: command not found

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

In Ubuntu rosmake is provided by python3-rosmake package.

python3-rosmake is:

This package is part of Robot OS (ROS). rosmake is a tool to assist with building ROS packages. It facilitates building packages that have dependencies, allowing all dependencies to be built in the correct order.

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-rosmake

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

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

sudo apt -y install python3-rosmake

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

sudo aptitude install python3-rosmake

Summary

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