fricas command not found

Introduction

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

fricas: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: fricas: command not found

Solutions to fricas: command not found

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

In Ubuntu fricas is provided by fricas package.

fricas is:

Fricas is useful for research and development of mathematical algorithms. It defines a strongly typed, mathematically correct type hierarchy. It has a programming language and a built-in compiler.

Fricas has been in development since 1973 and was sold as a commercial product. It has been released as free software.

Efforts are underway to extend this software to (a) develop a better user interface (b) make it useful as a teaching tool (c) develop an algebra server protocol (d) integrate additional mathematics (e) rebuild the algebra in a literate programming style (f) integrate logic programming (g) develop an Fricas Journal with refereed submissions.

This package contains the main program binary and all precompiled algebra and autoloadable modules.

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

sudo apt-get -y install fricas

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

You can also use apt command to install fricas.

sudo apt -y install fricas

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

sudo aptitude install fricas

Summary

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