Installed pytest but running `pytest` in bash returns `not found`

Question

I am following the python-django tutorial in Vagrant (Ubuntu 18.04 / Python3.6.6). After running pip3 install pytest-django and configuring pytest.ini file, running pytest returns

Command 'pytest' not found, but can be installed with:

apt install python-pytest
Please ask your administrator.

pip3 freeze output:

pytest==3.10.0
pytest-django==3.4.3

Is there something else to the installation?

Possible duplicate of [Py.test command not found, but library is installed](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/35998992/py-test-command-not-found-but-library-is-installed) — tripleee, Mar 27 '19 at 10:01

score 21 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 05 '18 at 13:19

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Try python -m pytest

Installing pytest via pip doesn't make it a system command, it installs it to python. The -m command runs pytest as its own command and then any proceeding script will be an argument.

answered Nov 05 '18 at 13:19

Cory Nezin

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 04 '22 at 13:35

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I got problem when I wanted to run the following code in .sh file.

pytest-3 -s test.py

To solve it I get solution from linux itself as follows:

sudo apt install python3-pytest

answered Apr 04 '22 at 13:35

Jalil Nourmohammadi Khiarak

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Installed pytest but running `pytest` in bash returns `not found`

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