meshlab command not found

Introduction

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

meshlab: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: meshlab: command not found

Solutions to meshlab: command not found

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

In Ubuntu meshlab is provided by meshlab package.

meshlab is:

This is an open source, portable, and extendible system for the processing and editing of unstructured 3D triangular meshes. The system is aimed to help the processing of the typical not-so-small unstructured models arising in 3D scanning, providing a set of tools for editing, cleaning, healing, inspecting, rendering and converting this kind of meshes.

Meshlab can read files in these formats: PLY, STL, OFF, OBJ, 3DS, COLLADA and PTX. It can write PLY, STL, OFF, OBJ, 3DS, COLLADA, VRML, and DXF.

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

sudo apt-get -y install meshlab

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

You can also use apt command to install meshlab.

sudo apt -y install meshlab

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

sudo aptitude install meshlab

Summary

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