rosrun command not found

Introduction

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

rosrun: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: rosrun: command not found

Solutions to rosrun: command not found

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

In Ubuntu rosrun is provided by rosbash package.

rosbash is:

This package is part of Robot OS (ROS). The rosbash package contains some useful bash functions and adds tab-completion to a large number of the basic ros utilities. The package includes limited support for zsh and tcsh by way of sourcing the roszsh or rostcsh files respectively. It doesn’t provide documentation on these shells, though much of the functionality is similar to the bash shell extensions.

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

sudo apt-get -y install rosbash

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

You can also use apt command to install rosbash.

sudo apt -y install rosbash

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

sudo aptitude install rosbash

Summary

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