yacas command not found

Introduction

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

yacas: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: yacas: command not found

Solutions to yacas: command not found

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

In Ubuntu yacas is provided by yacas package.

yacas is:

Yacas is a small and highly flexible computer algebra language.

The syntax is very close to Mathematica. The distribution contains a small library of mathematical functions, but its real strength is in the language in which you can easily write your own symbolic manipulation algorithms. It supports arbitrary precision arithmetic.

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

sudo apt-get -y install yacas

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

You can also use apt command to install yacas.

sudo apt -y install yacas

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

sudo aptitude install yacas

Summary

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