watchmedo command not found

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

Introduction

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

watchmedo: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: watchmedo: command not found

In Ubuntu watchmedo is provided by python3-watchdog package.

python3-watchdog is:

Watchdog comes with a utility script called watchmedo. It can be used to execute commands in response to events.

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

sudo apt-get -y install python3-watchdog

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

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

sudo apt -y install python3-watchdog

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

sudo aptitude install python3-watchdog

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