versioneer command not found

Introduction

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

versioneer: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: versioneer: command not found

Solutions to versioneer: command not found

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

In Ubuntu versioneer is provided by python3-versioneer package.

python3-versioneer is:

This is a tool for managing a recorded version number in distutils-based python projects. The goal is to remove the tedious and error-prone “update the embedded version string” step from your release process. Making a new release should be as easy as recording a new tag in your version-control system, and maybe making new tarballs.

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

sudo apt-get -y install python3-versioneer

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

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

sudo apt -y install python3-versioneer

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

sudo aptitude install python3-versioneer

Summary

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