watchgod command not found

Introduction

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

watchgod: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: watchgod: command not found

Solutions to watchgod: command not found

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

In Ubuntu watchgod is provided by python3-watchgod package.

python3-watchgod is:

Simple, modern file watching and code reload in Python. It can watch for changes in a directory and run a function to restart it when code changes. Notifications about change events as well as to restart a process can use the callback argument to pass a function which will be called on every file change with one argument: the set of file changes.

This package contains the Python 3 version of the library.

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

sudo apt-get -y install python3-watchgod

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

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

sudo apt -y install python3-watchgod

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

sudo aptitude install python3-watchgod

Summary

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