rosboost-cfg command not found

Introduction

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

rosboost-cfg: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: rosboost-cfg: command not found

Solutions to rosboost-cfg: command not found

How To Fix rosboost-cfg: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu rosboost-cfg is provided by python3-rosboost-cfg package.

python3-rosboost-cfg is:

This package is part of Robot OS (ROS). It is used for determining build flags (cflags/lflags/etc.) for boost on your system when you use it in a ROS environment.

This package contains the Python 3 library.

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

sudo apt-get -y install python3-rosboost-cfg

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

You can also use apt command to install python3-rosboost-cfg.

sudo apt -y install python3-rosboost-cfg

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

sudo aptitude install python3-rosboost-cfg

Summary

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