CloudCompare command not found

Introduction

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

CloudCompare: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: CloudCompare: command not found

Solutions to CloudCompare: command not found

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

In Ubuntu CloudCompare is provided by cloudcompare package.

cloudcompare is:

This is a 3D point cloud (and triangular mesh) processing software. It has been originally designed to perform comparison between two 3D points clouds (such as the ones obtained with a laser scanner) or between a point cloud and a triangular mesh.

It relies on a specific octree structure that enables great performances in this particular function. It was also meant to deal with huge point clouds (typically more than 10 millions points, and up to 120 millions with 2 GB of memory)

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

sudo apt-get -y install cloudcompare

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

You can also use apt command to install cloudcompare.

sudo apt -y install cloudcompare

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

sudo aptitude install cloudcompare

Summary

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