rosunit command not found

Introduction

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

rosunit: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: rosunit: command not found

Solutions to rosunit: command not found

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

In Ubuntu rosunit is provided by python3-rosunit package.

python3-rosunit is:

This package is part of Robot OS (ROS). python3-rosunit is a lower-level library for rostest and handles unit tests, whereas rostest handles integration tests. It’s an internal tool for running unit tests within ROS. While it can be run by a regular user, most users will generally use rosunit indirectly via rosbuild test macros.

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-rosunit

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

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

sudo apt -y install python3-rosunit

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

sudo aptitude install python3-rosunit

Summary

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