tetgen command not found

Introduction

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

tetgen: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: tetgen: command not found

Solutions to tetgen: command not found

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

In Ubuntu tetgen is provided by tetgen package.

tetgen is:

TetGen generates the Delaunay tetrahedralization, Voronoi diagram, and convex hull for three-dimensional point sets, generates the constrained Delaunay tetrahedralizations and quality tetrahedral meshes for three-dimensional domains with piecewise linear boundary.

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

sudo apt-get -y install tetgen

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

You can also use apt command to install tetgen.

sudo apt -y install tetgen

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

sudo aptitude install tetgen

Summary

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