pyscanfcs command not found

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

Introduction

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

pyscanfcs: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: pyscanfcs: command not found

Solutions to pyscanfcs: command not found

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

In Ubuntu pyscanfcs is provided by pyscanfcs package.

pyscanfcs is:

When a membrane is scanned perpendicularly to its surface, the fluorescence signal originating from the membrane itself must be separated from the signal of the surrounding medium for an FCS analysis. PyScanFCS interactively extracts the fluctuating fluorescence signal from such measurements and applies a multiple-tau algorithm. The obtained correlation curves can be evaluated using PyCorrFit.

Package provides the Python module pyscanfcs and its graphical user interface. The graphical user interface is written in wxPython.

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

sudo apt-get -y install pyscanfcs

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

You can also use apt command to install pyscanfcs.

sudo apt -y install pyscanfcs

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

sudo aptitude install pyscanfcs

Summary

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