maxima command not found

Introduction

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

maxima: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: maxima: command not found

Solutions to maxima: command not found

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

In Ubuntu maxima is provided by maxima package.

maxima is:

Maxima is a fully symbolic computation program. It is full featured doing symbolic manipulation of polynomials, matrices, rational functions, integration, Todd-coxeter methods for finite group analysis, graphing, multiple precision floating point computation. It has a symbolic source level debugger for maxima code. Maxima is based on the original Macsyma developed at MIT in the 1970s. It is quite reliable, and has good garbage collection, and no memory leaks. It comes with hundreds of self tests.

This package contains the main executables and base system files.

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

sudo apt-get -y install maxima

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

You can also use apt command to install maxima.

sudo apt -y install maxima

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

sudo aptitude install maxima

Summary

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