edit_octree command not found

Introduction

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

edit_octree: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: edit_octree: command not found

Solutions to edit_octree: command not found

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

In Ubuntu edit_octree is provided by octomap-tools package.

octomap-tools is:

The OctoMap library implements a 3D occupancy grid mapping approach, providing data structures and mapping algorithms in C++ particularly suited for robotics. The map implementation is based on an octree and is designed to meet the following requirements: Full 3D model, Updatable, Flexible and Compact. This package contains tools to use with Octomap library.

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

sudo apt-get -y install octomap-tools

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

You can also use apt command to install octomap-tools.

sudo apt -y install octomap-tools

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

sudo aptitude install octomap-tools

Summary

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