wheel command not found

Introduction

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

wheel: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: wheel: command not found

Solutions to wheel: command not found

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

In Ubuntu wheel is provided by python-wheel-common package.

python-wheel-common is:

A wheel is a ZIP-format archive with a specially formatted filename and the .whl extension. It is designed to contain all the files for a PEP 376 compatible install in a way that is very close to the on-disk format.

The wheel project provides a bdist_wheel command for setuptools. Wheel files can be installed with pip.

These are the command line scripts and manpages.

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

sudo apt-get -y install python-wheel-common

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

You can also use apt command to install python-wheel-common.

sudo apt -y install python-wheel-common

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

sudo aptitude install python-wheel-common

Summary

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