maxima-sage command not found

Introduction

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

maxima-sage: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: maxima-sage: command not found

Solutions to maxima-sage: command not found

How To Fix maxima-sage: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu maxima-sage is provided by maxima-sage package.

maxima-sage is:

Maxima is a fully symbolic computation program. It is full featured doing symbolic manipulation of polynomials, matrices, rational functions, integration, Todd-coxeter methods for finite group analysis, graphing, multiple precision floating point computation. It has a symbolic source level debugger for maxima code. Maxima is based on the original Macsyma developed at MIT in the 1970s. It is quite reliable, and has good garbage collection, and no memory leaks. It comes with hundreds of self tests.

The maxima-sage packages are meant to be used together with SageMath. They contain the version of Maxima that works together with the SageMath version in Debian and use ECL instead of GCL as Lisp compiler. To use Maxima by itself, the more complete and up-to-date maxima package is recommended.

This package contains the main executables and base system files.

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

sudo apt-get -y install maxima-sage

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

You can also use apt command to install maxima-sage.

sudo apt -y install maxima-sage

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

sudo aptitude install maxima-sage

Summary

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