cantor command not found

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

Introduction

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

cantor: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: cantor: command not found

Solutions to cantor: command not found

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

In Ubuntu cantor is provided by cantor package.

cantor is:

Cantor is an application to allow you to you use your favorite mathematical applications from within an elegant worksheet interface. It provides dialogs to assist with common tasks and allows you to share your worksheets with others.

Cantor supports various mathematical applications as backends (provided in external packages):

Maxima Computer Algebra System (cantor-backend-maxima)
R Project for Statistical Computing (cantor-backend-r)
Sage Mathematics Software (cantor-backend-sage)
Octave (cantor-backend-octave)
Python (cantor-backend-python3)
Scilab (cantor-backend-scilab)
Qalculate! (cantor-backend-qalculate)
Lua (cantor-backend-lua)

This package is part of the KDE education module.

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

sudo apt-get -y install cantor

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

You can also use apt command to install cantor.

sudo apt -y install cantor

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

sudo aptitude install cantor

Summary

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