tachyon-ogl command not found

Introduction

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

tachyon-ogl: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: tachyon-ogl: command not found

Solutions to tachyon-ogl: command not found

How To Fix tachyon-ogl: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu tachyon-ogl is provided by tachyon-bin-ogl package.

tachyon-bin-ogl is:

Tachyon is a portable, high performance parallel ray tracing system supporting MPI and multithreaded implementations. Tachyon is built as a C callable library, which can be used within applications.

Tachyon implements all of the basic geometric primitives such as triangles, planes, spheres, cylinders, etc. Some of the goals in developing Tachyon were to make it fast and for it to parallelize well. These are what set it apart from more full-featured programs like POV-Ray, Rayshade, and others. Tachyon supports enough features to be an excellent alternative to slower programs for demanding animation and scientific visualization tasks.

This package provides a simple scene file parser front-end built upon tachyon and with OpenGL display.

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

sudo apt-get -y install tachyon-bin-ogl

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

You can also use apt command to install tachyon-bin-ogl.

sudo apt -y install tachyon-bin-ogl

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

sudo aptitude install tachyon-bin-ogl

Summary

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