GDSIIConvert command not found

Introduction

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

GDSIIConvert: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: GDSIIConvert: command not found

Solutions to GDSIIConvert: command not found

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

In Ubuntu GDSIIConvert is provided by gdsiiconvert package.

gdsiiconvert is:

The command line tool can be used for reporting statistics on GDSII geometries and export them to other file formats, notably including the GMSH geometry format.

It is the “example application” for libGDSII which is a C++ library for working with GDSII binary data files.

This package also contains example GDSII files.

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

sudo apt-get -y install gdsiiconvert

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

You can also use apt command to install gdsiiconvert.

sudo apt -y install gdsiiconvert

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

sudo aptitude install gdsiiconvert

Summary

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