dap-config command not found

Introduction

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

dap-config: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: dap-config: command not found

Solutions to dap-config: command not found

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

In Ubuntu dap-config is provided by libdap-dev package.

libdap-dev is:

OPeNDAP provides software that allows you to access data over the internet, from programs that weren’t originally designed for that purpose, as well as some that were. While OPeNDAP is the original developer of the Data Access protocol which its software uses, many other groups have adopted DAP and provide compatible clients, servers and software development kits.

This package contains header files, pkgconfig files and static libraries for DAP.

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

sudo apt-get -y install libdap-dev

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

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

sudo apt -y install libdap-dev

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

sudo aptitude install libdap-dev

Summary

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