pcre++-config command not found

Introduction

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

pcre++-config: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: pcre++-config: command not found

Solutions to pcre++-config: command not found

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

In Ubuntu pcre++-config is provided by libpcre++-dev package.

libpcre++-dev is:

PCRE++ is a C++ wrapper-class for the library PCRE (Perl Compatible Regular Expressions).

Its class allows you to use perl alike regular expressions in your C++ applications. You can use it to search in strings, to split strings into parts using expressions or to search and replace a part of a string with another part.

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

sudo apt-get -y install libpcre++-dev

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

You can also use apt command to install libpcre++-dev.

sudo apt -y install libpcre++-dev

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

sudo aptitude install libpcre++-dev

Summary

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