3dsdump command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix 3dsdump command not found error message

Introduction

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

3dsdump: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: 3dsdump: command not found

In Ubuntu 3dsdump is provided by lib3ds-dev package.

lib3ds-dev is:

This library implements the functionality required to manage Autodesk’s 3D Studio Release 3 and 4 format (.3DS) files.

It is a free alternative to Autodesk’s 3DS File Toolkit for managing 3DS files.

This package contains the development files (headers and libs).

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

sudo apt-get -y install lib3ds-dev

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

You can also use apt command to install lib3ds-dev.

sudo apt -y install lib3ds-dev

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

sudo aptitude install lib3ds-dev

In this tutorial we learn how to fix 3dsdump command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.