tabulate command not found

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

Introduction

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

tabulate: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: tabulate: command not found

In Ubuntu tabulate is provided by python3-tabulate package.

python3-tabulate is:

Pretty-print tabular data in Python, a library and a command-line utility. The main use cases of the library are:

printing small tables without hassle: just one function call, formatting is guided by the data itself
authoring tabular data for lightweight plain-text markup: multiple output formats suitable for further editing or transformation
readable presentation of mixed textual and numeric data: smart column alignment, configurable number formatting, alignment by a decimal point

This package installs the library for Python 3, and the cli tool.

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

sudo apt-get -y install python3-tabulate

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

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

sudo apt -y install python3-tabulate

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

sudo aptitude install python3-tabulate

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