rviz command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix rviz command not found error message

Introduction

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

rviz: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: rviz: command not found

In Ubuntu rviz is provided by rviz package.

rviz is:

This package is part of Robot OS (ROS) RViz package. RViz is a tool to visualize ROS messages and the state of the robot.

This package contains the rviz program.

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

sudo apt-get -y install rviz

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

You can also use apt command to install rviz.

sudo apt -y install rviz

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

sudo aptitude install rviz

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