ploticus command not found

Introduction

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

ploticus: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: ploticus: command not found

Solutions to ploticus: command not found

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

In Ubuntu ploticus is provided by ploticus package.

ploticus is:

Ploticus is script-driven, which makes it suitable for automated, unattended uses, or for applications that will be run again and again. In general, ploticus is good at making graphs like you would see in newspapers and news magazines, business publications, journals for medical and social sciences, and so on.

Ploticus is not a function or mathematical plotting package like gnuplot, nor would it be a good choice for applications where mathematical formulas or scientific notations are to be rendered as an integral part of the data display. Ploticus is also not intended as a “marketing” graphics package. Its goal is to display data crisply without extra decoration and distracting “dingbats” that cloud the picture.

Ploticus supports a wide range of output options, including jpeg (Joint Photographics Experts Group format), png (Portable Network Graphics format), svg (Simple Vector Graphics), bmp (Microsoft BitMaP), ps (PostScript), swf (Flash), and X11.

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

sudo apt-get -y install ploticus

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

You can also use apt command to install ploticus.

sudo apt -y install ploticus

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

sudo aptitude install ploticus

Summary

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