gapd command not found

Introduction

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

gapd: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: gapd: command not found

Solutions to gapd: command not found

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

In Ubuntu gapd is provided by gap-scscp package.

gap-scscp is:

GAP is a system for computational discrete algebra with particular emphasis on computational group theory, but which has already proved useful also in other areas.

This package implements the Symbolic Computation Software Composability Protocol (SCSCP) for GAP.

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

sudo apt-get -y install gap-scscp

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

You can also use apt command to install gap-scscp.

sudo apt -y install gap-scscp

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

sudo aptitude install gap-scscp

Summary

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