rostest command not found

Introduction

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

rostest: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: rostest: command not found

Solutions to rostest: command not found

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

In Ubuntu rostest is provided by python3-rostest package.

python3-rostest is:

This package is part of Robot OS (ROS). rostest is an extension to roslaunch that enables roslaunch files to be used as test fixtures. As a fully running system has more complex behaviors than an individual ROS node, this allows you to do full integration testing across multiple nodes. It is compatible with xUnit frameworks.

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-rostest

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

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

sudo apt -y install python3-rostest

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

sudo aptitude install python3-rostest

Summary

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