wxmaxima command not found

Introduction

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

wxmaxima: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: wxmaxima: command not found

Solutions to wxmaxima: command not found

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

In Ubuntu wxmaxima is provided by wxmaxima package.

wxmaxima is:

wxMaxima is a graphical user interface for the computer algebra system Maxima. It eases the use of Maxima by making most of its commands available through a menu system and by providing input dialogs for commands that require more than one argument. It also implements its own display engine that outputs mathematical symbols directly instead of depicting them with ASCII characters.

wxMaxima also features 2D and 3D inline plots, simple animations, mixing of text and mathematical calculations to create documents, exporting of input and output to TeX, and a browser for Maxima’s manual including command index and full text searching.

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

sudo apt-get -y install wxmaxima

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

You can also use apt command to install wxmaxima.

sudo apt -y install wxmaxima

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

sudo aptitude install wxmaxima

Summary

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