librsb-config command not found

Introduction

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

librsb-config: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: librsb-config: command not found

Solutions to librsb-config: command not found

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

In Ubuntu librsb-config is provided by librsb-dev package.

librsb-dev is:

This is a library for sparse matrix computations featuring the Recursive Sparse Blocks (RSB) matrix format. This format allows cache efficient and multi-threaded (that is, shared memory parallel) operations on large sparse matrices. It provides the most common operations necessary to iterative solvers, like matrix-vector multiplication, triangular solution, rows/columns scaling, diagonal extraction / setting, blocks extraction, norm computation, formats conversion. The RSB format is especially well suited for symmetric and transposed multiplication variants.

This package contains the static libraries for development with librsb, including examples.

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

sudo apt-get -y install librsb-dev

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

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

sudo apt -y install librsb-dev

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

sudo aptitude install librsb-dev

Summary

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