xmaxima command not found

Introduction

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

xmaxima: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: xmaxima: command not found

Solutions to xmaxima: command not found

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

In Ubuntu xmaxima is provided by xmaxima package.

xmaxima is:

Maxima is a fully symbolic computation program. It is full featured doing symbolic manipulation of polynomials, matrices, rational functions, integration, Todd-coxeter methods for finite group analysis, graphing, multiple precision floating point computation. It has a symbolic source level debugger for maxima code. Maxima is based on the original Macsyma developed at MIT in the 1970s. It is quite reliable, and has good garbage collection, and no memory leaks. It comes with hundreds of self tests.

This package contains an X Windows interface using the tcl/tk libraries.

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

sudo apt-get -y install xmaxima

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

You can also use apt command to install xmaxima.

sudo apt -y install xmaxima

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

sudo aptitude install xmaxima

Summary

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