glewinfo command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix glewinfo command not found error message

Introduction

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

glewinfo: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: glewinfo: command not found

In Ubuntu glewinfo is provided by glew-utils package.

glew-utils is:

For more information about GLEW please refer to the description of the libglew-dev package.

This package contains the utilities which can be used to query the supported OpenGL extensions.

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

sudo apt-get -y install glew-utils

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

You can also use apt command to install glew-utils.

sudo apt -y install glew-utils

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

sudo aptitude install glew-utils

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