splash command not found

Introduction

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

splash: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: splash: command not found

Solutions to splash: command not found

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

In Ubuntu splash is provided by splash package.

splash is:

This (formerly SUPERSPHPLOT) is a visualisation tool for output from (astrophysical) simulations using the Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) method in one, two and three dimensions. It is written in Fortran 90 and can utilise the PGPLOT graphics subroutine library to do the actual plotting. It is based around a command-line menu structure but utilises the interactive capabilities of PGPLOT to manipulate data interactively in the plotting window.

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

sudo apt-get -y install splash

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

You can also use apt command to install splash.

sudo apt -y install splash

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

sudo aptitude install splash

Summary

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