colorcet command not found

Introduction

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

colorcet: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: colorcet: command not found

Solutions to colorcet: command not found

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

In Ubuntu colorcet is provided by python3-colorcet package.

python3-colorcet is:

Collection of perceptually uniform colormaps for use with Python plotting programs like bokeh, matplotlib, holoviews, and datashader based on the set of perceptually uniform colormaps created by Peter Kovesi at the Center for Exploration Targeting.

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

sudo apt-get -y install python3-colorcet

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

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

sudo apt -y install python3-colorcet

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

sudo aptitude install python3-colorcet

Summary

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