tqdm command not found

Introduction

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

tqdm: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: tqdm: command not found

Solutions to tqdm: command not found

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

In Ubuntu tqdm is provided by python3-tqdm package.

python3-tqdm is:

tqdm (read taqadum, تقدّم) means “progress” in Arabic. tqdm instantly makes your loops show a smart progress meter, just by wrapping any iterable with “tqdm(iterable)”.

This package contains the Python 3 version of tqdm and its command-line tool.

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

sudo apt-get -y install python3-tqdm

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

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

sudo apt -y install python3-tqdm

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

sudo aptitude install python3-tqdm

Summary

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