cal3d_converter command not found

Introduction

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

cal3d_converter: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: cal3d_converter: command not found

Solutions to cal3d_converter: command not found

How To Fix cal3d_converter: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu cal3d_converter is provided by libcal3d12v5 package.

libcal3d12v5 is:

Cal3d is a skeletal based 3d character animation library written in C++ in a platform-/graphic API-independent way. It has an unified exporter plugin framework. Currently it includes exporters 16 for 3D Studio Max and MilkShape 3D).

This package contains the cal3 runtime library.

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

sudo apt-get -y install libcal3d12v5

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

You can also use apt command to install libcal3d12v5.

sudo apt -y install libcal3d12v5

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

sudo aptitude install libcal3d12v5

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix cal3d_converter command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.