rosservice command not found

Introduction

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

rosservice: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: rosservice: command not found

Solutions to rosservice: command not found

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

In Ubuntu rosservice is provided by python3-rosservice package.

python3-rosservice is:

This package is part of Robot OS (ROS). rosservice contains the rosservice command-line tool for listing and querying ROS services. It also contains a Python library for retrieving information about services and dynamically invoking them. The Python library is experimental and is for internal-use only.

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-rosservice

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

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

sudo apt -y install python3-rosservice

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

sudo aptitude install python3-rosservice

Summary

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