Running cloudcompare on ubuntu 16.04 lts

[amitoz]

Hello Everyone,

I am a newbie to Ubuntu. I decided to install cloud compare. Everything got installed without any err or dependency issue, in the /snap/cloudcompare. Initially I couldn't figure it out how to run this application. Then I saw binary CloudCompare inside /snap/cloudcomapre/1/bin. I changed my directory to it and used ./CloudCompare but it is throwing this error.

error while running CC

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I am not even sure is it even a right way to run CC. Kindly help me running CC on my Ubuntu.

[daniel]

Have you tried to simply type 'CloudCompare'?

At least you shouldn't launch it from the snap bundle!

[amitoz]

Yes I did. CloudCompare: command not found was the issue. So obviously the PATH environment has to be appended. Which I did by adding /snap/cloudcompare/1/bin to the PATH. Should I add something else to the PATH?

[Romain.Janvier]

In Snap, there is a namespace concept, to launch your application you have to type namespace.applicationbinary . for CC package the namespace is cloudcompare. So you you have to type cloudcompare.CloudCompare.

you can also launch CC from the Unity shell by clicking on the icon.

[amitoz]

Thank you Roman it works. Any reference to understand this namespace concept? Now after launching the application I have locked it on my unity shell.
Best regards

[a.patience]

Thank you Roman it works. Any reference to understand this namespace concept? Now after launching the application I have locked it on my unity shell.
Best regards

Namespaces are an Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) concept:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet ... /namespace

Easiest to think of a namespace as an environment in which objects can exist.

[augle]

I've got the same problem, but when trying with "cloudcompare.CloudCompare", I got
bash: cloudcompare.CloudCompare: No such file or directory

I am running Linux Mint 17.2, and installation with

sudo apt install snapd
snap install cloudcompare

produces no error

[TheOrdinaryMan]

Same here, ubuntu 14.04, running cloudcompare.Cloudcompare gives "command not found"

Also attempting to download the stable build with snap makes it download 2.10-beta

[Romain.Janvier]

@augie please try to reboot your computer an try to launch CloudCompare first through the graphic shell.