ivcat command not found

Introduction

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

ivcat: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: ivcat: command not found

Solutions to ivcat: command not found

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

In Ubuntu ivcat is provided by inventor-clients package.

inventor-clients is:

This package contains Open Inventor file viewers and converters.

Open Inventor is an object-oriented 3D toolkit offering a comprehensive solution to interactive graphics programming problems. It presents a programming model based on a 3D scene database that simplifies graphics programming. It includes a large set of objects such as cubes, polygons, text, materials, cameras, lights, trackballs, handle boxes, 3D viewers, and editors can speed up your programming and extend your 3D program’s capabilities.

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

sudo apt-get -y install inventor-clients

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

You can also use apt command to install inventor-clients.

sudo apt -y install inventor-clients

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

sudo aptitude install inventor-clients

Summary

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