roswtf command not found

Introduction

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

roswtf: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: roswtf: command not found

Solutions to roswtf: command not found

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

In Ubuntu roswtf is provided by python3-roswtf package.

python3-roswtf is:

This package is part of Robot OS (ROS). roswtf looks for many, many things, and the list is always growing. There are two categories of things that it looks for: file-system issues and online/graph issues.

For file-system issues, roswtf looks at your environment variables, package configurations, stack configurations, and more. It can also take in a roslaunch file and attempt to find any potential configuration issues in it, such as packages that haven’t been built properly.

For online issues, roswtf examines the state of your current graph and tries to find any potential issues. These issues might be unresponsive nodes, missing connections between nodes, or potential machine-configuration issues with roslaunch.

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-roswtf

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

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

sudo apt -y install python3-roswtf

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

sudo aptitude install python3-roswtf

Summary

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