octave command not found

Introduction

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

octave: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: octave: command not found

Solutions to octave: command not found

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

In Ubuntu octave 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 command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.