jacal command not found

Introduction

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

jacal: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: jacal: command not found

Solutions to jacal: command not found

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

In Ubuntu jacal is provided by jacal package.

jacal is:

JACAL is an interactive symbolic math system which can manipulate and simplify equations, scalars, vectors, and matrices of single and multiple valued algebraic expressions containing numbers, variables, radicals, and algebraic differential, and holonomic functions.

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

sudo apt-get -y install jacal

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

You can also use apt command to install jacal.

sudo apt -y install jacal

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

sudo aptitude install jacal

Summary

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