gnuplot-nox command not found

Introduction

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

gnuplot-nox: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: gnuplot-nox: command not found

Solutions to gnuplot-nox: command not found

How To Fix gnuplot-nox: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu gnuplot-nox is provided by gnuplot-nox package.

gnuplot-nox is:

Gnuplot is a portable command-line driven interactive data and function plotting utility that supports lots of output formats, including drivers for many printers, (La)TeX, (x)fig, Postscript, and so on. The X11-output is packaged in gnuplot-x11. The QT-output is packaged in gnuplot-qt.

Data files and self-defined functions can be manipulated by the internal C-like language. Can perform smoothing, spline-fitting, or nonlinear fits, and can work with complex numbers.

This package is for working without an X server.

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

sudo apt-get -y install gnuplot-nox

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

You can also use apt command to install gnuplot-nox.

sudo apt -y install gnuplot-nox

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

sudo aptitude install gnuplot-nox

Summary

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