ipe command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix ipe command not found error message

Introduction

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

ipe: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: ipe: command not found

In Ubuntu ipe is provided by ipe package.

ipe is:

Ipe supports making small figures for inclusion into LaTeX documents as well as making multi-page PDF presentations Ipe’s main features are:

Entry of text as LaTeX source code. This makes it easy to enter mathematical expressions, and to reuse the LaTeX-macros of the main document. In the display text is displayed as it will appear in the figure.
Produces pure Postscript/PDF, including the text. Ipe converts the LaTeX-source to PDF or Postscript when the file is saved.
It is easy to align objects with respect to each other (for instance, to place a point on the intersection of two lines, or to draw a circle through three given points) using various snapping modes.
Users can provide ipelets (Ipe plug-ins) to add functionality to Ipe. This way, Ipe can be extended for each task at hand.
The text model is based on Unicode, and has been tested with Korean, Chinese, and Japanese.

Package lua5.3 is recommended if using Ipe with LaTeX.

Package texlive-latex-recommended enables unicode text entry (for accented characters).

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

sudo apt-get -y install ipe

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

You can also use apt command to install ipe.

sudo apt -y install ipe

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

sudo aptitude install ipe

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