POWplot command not found

Introduction

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

POWplot: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: POWplot: command not found

Solutions to POWplot: command not found

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

In Ubuntu POWplot is provided by ftools-pow package.

ftools-pow is:

POW is a curve plotting and image display interface tool written and distributed by the HEASARC at NASA/GSFC.

POW features a very flexible developer’s interface and a “friendly” end user GUI interface. POW is a Tcl/Tk extension and can be called from standard C or FORTRAN main programs.

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

sudo apt-get -y install ftools-pow

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

You can also use apt command to install ftools-pow.

sudo apt -y install ftools-pow

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

sudo aptitude install ftools-pow

Summary

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