Open3D command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix Open3D command not found error message

Introduction

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

Open3D: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: Open3D: command not found

Solutions to Open3D: command not found

How To Fix Open3D: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu Open3D is provided by open3d-gui package.

open3d-gui is:

Open3D is an open-source library that supports rapid development of software that deals with 3D data. The Open3D frontend exposes a set of carefully selected data structures and algorithms in both C++ and Python. The backend is highly optimized and is set up for parallelization.

This package provides the stand-alone GUI for data visualization.

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

sudo apt-get -y install open3d-gui

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

You can also use apt command to install open3d-gui.

sudo apt -y install open3d-gui

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

sudo aptitude install open3d-gui

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix Open3D command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.