rosstack command not found

Introduction

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

rosstack: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: rosstack: command not found

Solutions to rosstack: command not found

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

In Ubuntu rosstack is provided by rospack-tools package.

rospack-tools is:

This package is part of Robot OS (ROS). rospack is a command-line tool for retrieving information about ROS packages available on the filesystem. It implements a wide variety of commands ranging from locating ROS packages in the filesystem, to listing available stacks, to calculating the dependency tree of stacks. It is also used in the ROS build system for calculating build information for packages.

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

sudo apt-get -y install rospack-tools

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

You can also use apt command to install rospack-tools.

sudo apt -y install rospack-tools

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

sudo aptitude install rospack-tools

Summary

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