roar-config command not found

Introduction

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

roar-config: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: roar-config: command not found

Solutions to roar-config: command not found

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

In Ubuntu roar-config is provided by libroar-dev package.

libroar-dev is:

RoarAudio is a server for audio mixing. Its main purpose is to mix audio from different clients before sending it to its outputs (for example a soundcard). It is completely network transparent (UNIX sockets, TCP/IP, DECnet) and supports many common codecs like Ogg Vorbis, Speex or FLAC.

This packet consists of the following libraries: libroar: The RoarAudio main library. It contains code for talking to roard, virtual IO functions useful not only for audio applications, memory management functions like buffers, lists, stacks.

libroardsp: Digital Signal Processing library. It contains code to work with PCM signals including simple filters, converters and code to work with some (realtime) codecs.

libroareio: This is the RoarAudio Extended IO library. It contains code for talking to extended IO. Currently it contains code to talk to soundcards without roard. This is not meant to be used by other applications directly.

libroarlight: Light Control support library. It contains code to support the usage of the light control subsystem.

libroarmidi: MIDI subsystem support library. It contains code to support the usage of the MIDI subsystem.

This package contains the development headers for the libroar library.

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

sudo apt-get -y install libroar-dev

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

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

sudo apt -y install libroar-dev

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

sudo aptitude install libroar-dev

Summary

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