efricas command not found

Introduction

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

efricas: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: efricas: command not found

Solutions to efricas: command not found

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

In Ubuntu efricas is provided by elpa-fricas package.

elpa-fricas is:

Fricas is useful for research and development of mathematical algorithms. It defines a strongly typed, mathematically correct type hierarchy. It has a programming language and a built-in compiler.

Fricas has been in development since 1973 and was sold as a commercial product. It has been released as free software.

Efforts are underway to extend this software to (a) develop a better user interface (b) make it useful as a teaching tool (c) develop an algebra server protocol (d) integrate additional mathematics (e) rebuild the algebra in a literate programming style (f) integrate logic programming (g) develop an Fricas Journal with refereed submissions.

This package contains support for running Fricas under emacs.

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

sudo apt-get -y install elpa-fricas

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

You can also use apt command to install elpa-fricas.

sudo apt -y install elpa-fricas

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

sudo aptitude install elpa-fricas

Summary

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