isympy command not found

Introduction

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

isympy: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: isympy: command not found

Solutions to isympy: command not found

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

In Ubuntu isympy is provided by isympy-common package.

isympy-common is:

SymPy is a Python library for symbolic mathematics (manipulation). It aims to become a full-featured computer algebra system (CAS) while keeping the code as simple as possible in order to be comprehensible and easily extensible. SymPy is written entirely in Python and does not require any external libraries, except optionally for plotting support.

This support package contains the common isympy Python script, a wrapper for SymPy which can be invoked with python3.

Install the isympy3 package to ensure all required dependencies are loaded.

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

sudo apt-get -y install isympy-common

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

You can also use apt command to install isympy-common.

sudo apt -y install isympy-common

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

sudo aptitude install isympy-common

Summary

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