xyscan command not found

Introduction

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

xyscan: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: xyscan: command not found

Solutions to xyscan: command not found

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

In Ubuntu xyscan is provided by xyscan package.

xyscan is:

xyscan is a tool for the scientist in the need to extract data points, i.e. numeric values, from a plot. It allows you to scan the plots and extract data points including the size of the error bars (both in x and y). It can handle plots with linear and logarithmic scales. In fact xyscan can be used for extracting numeric values from any kind of 2D technical drawings.

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

sudo apt-get -y install xyscan

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

You can also use apt command to install xyscan.

sudo apt -y install xyscan

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

sudo aptitude install xyscan

Summary

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