scilab-cli command not found

Introduction

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

scilab-cli: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: scilab-cli: command not found

Solutions to scilab-cli: command not found

How To Fix scilab-cli: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu scilab-cli is provided by scilab-cli package.

scilab-cli is:

Scilab is a matrix-based scientific software package. Scilab contains hundreds of built-in mathematical functions, rich data structures (including polynomials, rationals, linear systems, lists, etc…) and comes with a number of specific toolboxes for control, signal processing, …

This package provides Scilab as Command Line Interpreter (CLI). This package provides Scilab as a computing engine or script interpreter. Please install the package “scilab” to have all features.

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

sudo apt-get -y install scilab-cli

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

You can also use apt command to install scilab-cli.

sudo apt -y install scilab-cli

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

sudo aptitude install scilab-cli

Summary

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