apreq2-config command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix apreq2-config command not found error message

Introduction

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

apreq2-config: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: apreq2-config: command not found

Solutions to apreq2-config: command not found

How To Fix apreq2-config: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu apreq2-config is provided by libapreq2-dev package.

libapreq2-dev is:

The generic Apache request library (APR) contains modules for manipulating client request data with the Apache API from Perl and C. Functionality includes:

parsing of application/x-www-form-urlencoded data
parsing of multipart/form-data
parsing of HTTP Cookies

This package contains the development library and C headers required for compiling programs against the library.

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

sudo apt-get -y install libapreq2-dev

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

You can also use apt command to install libapreq2-dev.

sudo apt -y install libapreq2-dev

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

sudo aptitude install libapreq2-dev

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix apreq2-config command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.