scm command not found

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

Introduction

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

scm: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: scm: command not found

Solutions to scm: command not found

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

In Ubuntu scm is provided by scm package.

scm is:

SCM conforms to the R5RS (Revised^5 Report on the Algorithmic Language Scheme) and IEEE P1178 specifications, and is portable across many architectures and operating systems. It additionally includes a set of popular Common Lisp functions, POSIX and X Windows integration, and the Hobbit scheme-to-C compiler.

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

sudo apt-get -y install scm

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

You can also use apt command to install scm.

sudo apt -y install scm

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

sudo aptitude install scm

Summary

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