labplot2 command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix labplot2 command not found error message

Introduction

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

labplot2: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: labplot2: command not found

Solutions to labplot2: command not found

How To Fix labplot2: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu labplot2 is provided by labplot package.

labplot is:

LabPlot provides an easy way to create, manage and edit plots. It allows you to produce plots based on data from a spreadsheet or on data imported from external files. Plots can be exported to several pixmap and vector graphic formats.

Features include:

  • project-based management of data
  • project explorer for management and organization of created objects in different folders and sub-folders
  • spreadsheet with basic functionality for manual data entry or for generation of uniform and non-uniform random numbers
  • import of external ASCII data into the project for further editing and visualization
  • export of spreadsheet to an ASCII file
  • worksheet as the main parent object for plots, labels, etc; supports different layouts and zooming functions
  • export of worksheet to different formats (PDF, EPS, PNG, and SVG)
  • great variety of editing capabilities for properties of worksheet and its objects
  • cartesian plots, created either from imported or manually created data sets or via mathematical equation
  • definition of mathematical formulas is supported by syntax highlighting and completion and by the list of thematically grouped mathematical and physical constants and functions
  • analysis of plotted data is supported by many zooming and navigation features
  • linear and non-linear fits to data, several fit-models are predefined and custom models with arbitrary number of parameters can be provided

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

sudo apt-get -y install labplot

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

You can also use apt command to install labplot.

sudo apt -y install labplot

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

sudo aptitude install labplot

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix labplot2 command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.