synfig-config command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix synfig-config command not found error message

Introduction

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

synfig-config: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: synfig-config: command not found

In Ubuntu synfig-config is provided by libsynfig-dev package.

libsynfig-dev is:

synfig is a vector based 2D animation package. It is designed to be capable of producing feature-film quality animation.

This package contains headers and other files needed to develop applications using the shared library and plugin modules.

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

sudo apt-get -y install libsynfig-dev

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

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

sudo apt -y install libsynfig-dev

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

sudo aptitude install libsynfig-dev

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