plgen command not found

Introduction

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

plgen: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: plgen: command not found

Solutions to plgen: command not found

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

In Ubuntu plgen is provided by plfit package.

plfit is:

The plfit software fits power-law distributions to empirical (discrete or continuous) data, according to the method of Clauset, Shalizi and Newman [SIAM Review 51, 661-703 (2009)].

This package provides two command line utilities, plfit and plgen.

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

sudo apt-get -y install plfit

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

You can also use apt command to install plfit.

sudo apt -y install plfit

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

sudo aptitude install plfit

Summary

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