plotfont command not found

Introduction

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

plotfont: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: plotfont: command not found

Solutions to plotfont: command not found

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

In Ubuntu plotfont is provided by plotutils package.

plotutils is:

The GNU plotting utilities include programs for plotting two-dimensional scientific data. They are built on top of GNU `libplot’, a library for device-independent two-dimensional vector graphics.

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

sudo apt-get -y install plotutils

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

You can also use apt command to install plotutils.

sudo apt -y install plotutils

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

sudo aptitude install plotutils

Summary

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