vtkParseJava-7.1 command not found

Introduction

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

vtkParseJava-7.1: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: vtkParseJava-7.1: command not found

Solutions to vtkParseJava-7.1: command not found

How To Fix vtkParseJava-7.1: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu vtkParseJava-7.1 is provided by libvtk7-java package.

libvtk7-java is:

The Visualization Toolkit (VTK) is an object oriented, high level library that allows one to easily write C++ programs, Tcl, Python and Java scripts that do 3D visualization.

This package provides the VTK Java language support.

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

sudo apt-get -y install libvtk7-java

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

You can also use apt command to install libvtk7-java.

sudo apt -y install libvtk7-java

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

sudo aptitude install libvtk7-java

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix vtkParseJava-7.1 command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.