io_lib-config command not found

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

Introduction

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

io_lib-config: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: io_lib-config: command not found

Solutions to io_lib-config: command not found

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

In Ubuntu io_lib-config is provided by libstaden-read-dev package.

libstaden-read-dev is:

This package contains the header and development files needed to build programs and packages using the Staden io_lib.

The io_lib from the Staden package is a library of file reading and writing code to provide a general purpose trace file (and Experiment File) reading interface. It has been compiled and tested on a variety of unix systems, MacOS X and MS Windows.

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

sudo apt-get -y install libstaden-read-dev

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

You can also use apt command to install libstaden-read-dev.

sudo apt -y install libstaden-read-dev

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

sudo aptitude install libstaden-read-dev

Summary

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