octave-cli command not found

Introduction

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

octave-cli: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: octave-cli: command not found

Solutions to octave-cli: command not found

How To Fix octave-cli: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu octave-cli is provided by octave package.

octave is:

Octave is a (mostly MATLAB® compatible) high-level language, primarily intended for numerical computations. It provides a convenient command-line interface for solving linear and nonlinear problems numerically.

Octave can be dynamically extended with user-supplied C++ files.

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

sudo apt-get -y install octave

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

You can also use apt command to install octave.

sudo apt -y install octave

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

sudo aptitude install octave

Summary

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