aalib-config command not found

Introduction

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

aalib-config: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: aalib-config: command not found

Solutions to aalib-config: command not found

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

In Ubuntu aalib-config is provided by libaa1-dev package.

libaa1-dev is:

AAlib is a portable ASCII art graphics library. Internally, it works like a graphics display, but the output is rendered into platform-independent ASCII graphics.

This package contains the static library and header files used in development, plus developer’s documentation.

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

sudo apt-get -y install libaa1-dev

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

You can also use apt command to install libaa1-dev.

sudo apt -y install libaa1-dev

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

sudo aptitude install libaa1-dev

Summary

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