topcom-points2facets command not found

Introduction

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

topcom-points2facets: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: topcom-points2facets: command not found

Solutions to topcom-points2facets: command not found

How To Fix topcom-points2facets: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu topcom-points2facets is provided by topcom package.

topcom is:

TOPCOM is a collection of clients to compute Triangulations Of Point Configurations and Oriented Matroids, resp.

The algorithms use only combinatorial data of the point configuration as is given by its oriented matroid. Some basic commands for computing and manipulating oriented matroids can also be accessed by the user.

It was very much inspired by the maple program PUNTOS, which was written by Jesus de Loera. TOPCOM is entirely written in C++, so there is a significant speed up compared to PUNTOS.

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

sudo apt-get -y install topcom

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

You can also use apt command to install topcom.

sudo apt -y install topcom

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

sudo aptitude install topcom

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix topcom-points2facets command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.