yt command not found

Introduction

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

yt: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: yt: command not found

Solutions to yt: command not found

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

In Ubuntu yt is provided by python3-yt package.

python3-yt is:

The yt project aims to produce an integrated science environment for collaboratively asking and answering astrophysical questions. To do so, it will encompass the creation of initial conditions, the execution of simulations, and the detailed exploration and visualization of the resultant data. It will also provide a standard framework based on physical quantities interoperability between codes.

This package contains the Python 3 version of the package.

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

sudo apt-get -y install python3-yt

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

You can also use apt command to install python3-yt.

sudo apt -y install python3-yt

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

sudo aptitude install python3-yt

Summary

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