puredata command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix puredata command not found error message

Introduction

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

puredata: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: puredata: command not found

In Ubuntu puredata is provided by puredata-core package.

puredata-core is:

Pure Data (also known as Pd) is a real-time graphical programming environment for audio and graphics processing.

This package only provides the core infrastructure of Pure Data. Most likely you will want to install “puredata-gui” (or even “puredata”) as well.

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

sudo apt-get -y install puredata-core

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

You can also use apt command to install puredata-core.

sudo apt -y install puredata-core

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

sudo aptitude install puredata-core

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