uawrite command not found

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

Introduction

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

uawrite: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: uawrite: command not found

Solutions to uawrite: command not found

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

In Ubuntu uawrite is provided by python-opcua-tools package.

python-opcua-tools is:

An OPC-UA (Open Platform Communications - Unified Architecture) client and server library, written entirely in Python.

This package contains OPC UA tools:

  • uabrowse
  • uaclient
  • uadiscover
  • uahistoryread
  • uals
  • uaread
  • uaserver
  • uasubscribe
  • uawrite

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

sudo apt-get -y install python-opcua-tools

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

You can also use apt command to install python-opcua-tools.

sudo apt -y install python-opcua-tools

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

sudo aptitude install python-opcua-tools

Summary

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