qconvex command not found

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

Introduction

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

qconvex: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: qconvex: command not found

Solutions to qconvex: command not found

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

In Ubuntu qconvex is provided by qhull-bin package.

qhull-bin is:

Qhull computes convex hulls, Delaunay triangulations, halfspace intersections about a point, Voronoi diagrams, furthest-site Delaunay triangulations, and furthest-site Voronoi diagrams. It runs in 2-d, 3-d, 4-d, and higher dimensions.

This package contains the qhull executable that gives a pipe interface to some of the functionality of the library. Also included is rbox is a useful tool in generating input for Qhull; it generates hypercubes, diamonds, cones, circles, simplices, spirals, lattices, and random points.

Qhull produces graphical output for Geomview. This helps with understanding the output (http://www.geomview.org).

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

sudo apt-get -y install qhull-bin

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

You can also use apt command to install qhull-bin.

sudo apt -y install qhull-bin

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

sudo aptitude install qhull-bin

Summary

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