freenect-camtest command not found

Introduction

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

freenect-camtest: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: freenect-camtest: command not found

Solutions to freenect-camtest: command not found

How To Fix freenect-camtest: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu freenect-camtest is provided by libfreenect-bin package.

libfreenect-bin is:

libfreenect is a cross-platform library that provides the necessary interfaces to activate, initialize, and communicate data with the Kinect hardware. Currently, the library supports access to RGB and depth video streams, motors, accelerometer and LED and provide binding in different languages (C++, Python…)

This library is the low level component of the OpenKinect project which is an open community of people interested in making use of the Xbox Kinect hardware with PCs and other devices.

This package includes utilities and sample programs for kinect.

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

sudo apt-get -y install libfreenect-bin

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

You can also use apt command to install libfreenect-bin.

sudo apt -y install libfreenect-bin

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

sudo aptitude install libfreenect-bin

Summary

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