gltfpack command not found

Introduction

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

gltfpack: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: gltfpack: command not found

Solutions to gltfpack: command not found

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

In Ubuntu gltfpack is provided by gltfpack package.

gltfpack is:

gltfpack is a tool that can automatically optimize glTF files to reduce the download size and improve loading and rendering speed.

It substantially changes the glTF data by optimizing the meshes for vertex fetch and transform cache, quantizing the geometry to reduce the memory consumption and size, merging meshes to reduce the draw call count, quantizing and resampling animations to reduce animation size and simplify playback, and pruning the node tree by removing or collapsing redundant nodes. It will also simplify the meshes when requested to do so.

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

sudo apt-get -y install gltfpack

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

You can also use apt command to install gltfpack.

sudo apt -y install gltfpack

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

sudo aptitude install gltfpack

Summary

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