pd-gui-plugin command not found

Introduction

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

pd-gui-plugin: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: pd-gui-plugin: command not found

Solutions to pd-gui-plugin: command not found

How To Fix pd-gui-plugin: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu pd-gui-plugin is provided by puredata-gui package.

puredata-gui is:

Pure Data (also known as Pd) is a real-time graphical programming environment for audio and graphics processing.

This package provides the graphical user-interface for Pure Data. Most likely you will want to install “puredata-core” (or even “puredata”) as well. Installing this package without the accompanying puredata-core is only useful if you want to run the GUI and the DSP on different machines.

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

sudo apt-get -y install puredata-gui

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

You can also use apt command to install puredata-gui.

sudo apt -y install puredata-gui

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

sudo aptitude install puredata-gui

Summary

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