gnuplot-x11 command not found

Introduction

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

gnuplot-x11: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: gnuplot-x11: command not found

Solutions to gnuplot-x11: command not found

How To Fix gnuplot-x11: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu gnuplot-x11 is provided by gnuplot-x11 package.

gnuplot-x11 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.

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 contains the terminal driver that enables gnuplot to plot images interactively under X11.

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

sudo apt-get -y install gnuplot-x11

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

You can also use apt command to install gnuplot-x11.

sudo apt -y install gnuplot-x11

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

sudo aptitude install gnuplot-x11

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix gnuplot-x11 command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.