glcontexts command not found

Introduction

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

glcontexts: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: glcontexts: command not found

Solutions to glcontexts: command not found

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

In Ubuntu glcontexts is provided by glbinding-tools package.

glbinding-tools is:

glbinding leverages modern C++11 features like enum classes, lambdas, and variadic templates, instead of relying on macros; all OpenGL symbols are real functions and variables.

It provides type-safe parameters, per feature API header, lazy function resolution, multi-context and multi-thread support, global and local function callbacks, meta information about the generated OpenGL binding and the OpenGL runtime, as well as tools and examples for quick-starting your projects.

This package provides the command-line tools.

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

sudo apt-get -y install glbinding-tools

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

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

sudo apt -y install glbinding-tools

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

sudo aptitude install glbinding-tools

Summary

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