pcl_convolve command not found

Introduction

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

pcl_convolve: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: pcl_convolve: command not found

Solutions to pcl_convolve: command not found

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

In Ubuntu pcl_convolve is provided by pcl-tools package.

pcl-tools is:

The Point Cloud Library (PCL) is a standalone, large scale, open project for 2D/3D image and point cloud processing.

The PCL framework contains numerous state-of-the art algorithms including filtering, feature estimation, surface reconstruction, registration, model fitting and segmentation.

This package gathers tools bundled with PCL to process point clouds.

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

sudo apt-get -y install pcl-tools

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

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

sudo apt -y install pcl-tools

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

sudo aptitude install pcl-tools

Summary

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