colplot command not found

Introduction

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

colplot: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: colplot: command not found

Solutions to colplot: command not found

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

In Ubuntu colplot is provided by colplot package.

colplot is:

At its core, colplot is nothing more than a script that has intimate knowledge of collectl plot file and directory format. Based on the types of plots being requested and some basic formatting options, it will build the necessary gnuplot commands and automatically run them for you.

Colplot can be run either through a web-based interface or a command line. As this introduction is not intended to be a User’s Guide, see the colplot man page to identify which command line switches map to which web-based options. Also note that to produce plots on your terminal in command mode you must be running on a system that supports X terminals or windows. No, that is not a typo. Colplot does run on PCs. Also note if you direct colplot to write your plots to a file X is not required.

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

sudo apt-get -y install colplot

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

You can also use apt command to install colplot.

sudo apt -y install colplot

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

sudo aptitude install colplot

Summary

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