maphimbu command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix maphimbu command not found error message

Introduction

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

maphimbu: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: maphimbu: command not found

Solutions to maphimbu: command not found

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

In Ubuntu maphimbu is provided by stda package.

stda is:

This package contains some primary tools for evaluating sums, averages, integrals, derivatives, histograms/distributions of 1-d numerical data, and eventually for plotting the results. The stand-alone programs (supporting the standard UNIX input and output pipelines) are intended for data processing from the command line. They are especially useful for straightforward analysis of number series where a complex analytical approach is not necessary.

Following programs are included:

  • maphimbu - histogram builder for 1-d numerical and text data;
  • mintegrate - evaluate average/sum/integral/derivative of 1-d numerical data;
  • mmval - find minimum and maximum value in a dataset;
  • muplot - plot a multi-curve figure from multiple dataset using Gnuplot;
  • nnum - produce a series of integers or floats;
  • prefield - prepare input file for ‘muplot’ to plot 2-d fields by arrows.

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

sudo apt-get -y install stda

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

You can also use apt command to install stda.

sudo apt -y install stda

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

sudo aptitude install stda

Summary

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