pyxplot_watch command not found

Introduction

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

pyxplot_watch: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: pyxplot_watch: command not found

Solutions to pyxplot_watch: command not found

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

In Ubuntu pyxplot_watch is provided by pyxplot package.

pyxplot is:

Pyxplot is a multi-purpose graph plotting tool, scientific scripting language, vector graphics suite, and data processing package. Its interface is designed to make common tasks – e.g., plotting labelled graphs of data – accessible via short, simple, intuitive commands.

Pyxplot produces publication-quality figures. To this end, text is rendered with all of the beauty and flexibility of the LaTeX typesetting environment.

Extensive documentation and examples can be found in the pyxplot-doc package. A gallery of sample plots is available from the project’s web site.

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

sudo apt-get -y install pyxplot

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

You can also use apt command to install pyxplot.

sudo apt -y install pyxplot

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

sudo aptitude install pyxplot

Summary

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