pymca command not found

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

Introduction

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

pymca: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: pymca: command not found

Solutions to pymca: command not found

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

In Ubuntu pymca is provided by pymca package.

pymca is:

PyMca is set of applications and Python libraries for analysis of X-ray fluorescence spectra.

The applications included in this package are:

  • edfviewer - Display and inspection of data files in ESRF Data Format
  • elementsinfo - Displays element specific X-ray data
  • mca2edf - Converts files from SPEC MCA format to EDF
  • peakidentifier - Displays X-ray fluorescence peaks in a given energy range
  • pymcabatch - Batch fitting of spectra
  • pymcapostbatch - Post-processing of batch fitting results
  • pymca - Interactive data-analysis
  • pymcaroitool - Region-of-interest (ROI) imaging tool

The PyMca toolkit can read data files in SPEC, ESRF data file (EDF), OMNIC, HDF5, AIFIRA and SupaVisio formats.

This are the scripts of the package.

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

sudo apt-get -y install pymca

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

You can also use apt command to install pymca.

sudo apt -y install pymca

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

sudo aptitude install pymca

Summary

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