introduction

CGAL is abbreviation of The Computational Geometry Algorithms Library, which is an open source software project that provides easy access to efficient and reliable geometric algorithms in the form of a C++ library.

check installation

Run commands listed blow. If there isn’t any output, it means CGAL haven’t been installed.

dpkg -l | grep libcgal
pkg-config --modversion cgal
ls /usr/include/CGAL
ls /usr/local/include/CGAL

install

Install CGAL using APT with command below

sudo apt install libcgal-dev

After installing it, check whether CGAL is properly installed.