ipython3 command not found

Introduction

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

ipython3: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: ipython3: command not found

Solutions to ipython3: command not found

How To Fix ipython3: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu ipython3 is provided by ipython3 package.

ipython3 is:

IPython can be used as a replacement for the standard Python shell, or it can be used as a complete working environment for scientific computing (like Matlab or Mathematica) when paired with the standard Python scientific and numerical tools. It supports dynamic object introspections, numbered input/output prompts, a macro system, session logging, session restoring, complete system shell access, verbose and colored traceback reports, auto-parentheses, auto-quoting, and is embeddable in other Python programs.

This package contains the actual terminal shell for Python 3.

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

sudo apt-get -y install ipython3

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

You can also use apt command to install ipython3.

sudo apt -y install ipython3

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

sudo aptitude install ipython3

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix ipython3 command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.