sfcgal-config command not found

Introduction

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

sfcgal-config: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: sfcgal-config: command not found

Solutions to sfcgal-config: command not found

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

In Ubuntu sfcgal-config is provided by libsfcgal-dev package.

libsfcgal-dev is:

SFCGAL is a C++ wrapper library around CGAL with the aim of supporting ISO 19107:2013 and OGC Simple Features Access 1.2 for 3D operations.

SFCGAL provides standard compliant geometry types and operations, that can be accessed from its C or C++ APIs. PostGIS uses the C API, to expose some SFCGAL’s functions in spatial databases (cf. PostGIS manual).

This package provides the development files.

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

sudo apt-get -y install libsfcgal-dev

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

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

sudo apt -y install libsfcgal-dev

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

sudo aptitude install libsfcgal-dev

Summary

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