assimp command not found

Introduction

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

assimp: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: assimp: command not found

Solutions to assimp: command not found

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

In Ubuntu assimp is provided by assimp-utils package.

assimp-utils is:

Assimp is a library to import various well-known 3D model formats (“assets”) in a uniform manner. Assimp aims at providing a full asset conversion pipeline for use in game engines / realtime rendering systems of any kind but is not limited to this audience.

This package contains additional commandline utilities (currently only ‘assimp’) to interact with 3D models.

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

sudo apt-get -y install assimp-utils

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

You can also use apt command to install assimp-utils.

sudo apt -y install assimp-utils

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

sudo aptitude install assimp-utils

Summary

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