sciplot-xyplot command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix sciplot-xyplot command not found error message

Introduction

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

sciplot-xyplot: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: sciplot-xyplot: command not found

Solutions to sciplot-xyplot: command not found

How To Fix sciplot-xyplot: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu sciplot-xyplot is provided by sciplot-bin package.

sciplot-bin is:

This package contains two small programs that use the SciPlot library: sciplot-xyplot and sciplot-realtime. The SciPlot Widget is a widget capable of plotting Cartesian or polar graphs, including logarithmic axes in Cartesian plots.

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

sudo apt-get -y install sciplot-bin

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

You can also use apt command to install sciplot-bin.

sudo apt -y install sciplot-bin

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

sudo aptitude install sciplot-bin

Summary

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