antlr-config command not found

Introduction

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

antlr-config: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: antlr-config: command not found

Solutions to antlr-config: command not found

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

In Ubuntu antlr-config is provided by libantlr-dev package.

libantlr-dev is:

ANTLR, ANother Tool for Language Recognition, (formerly PCCTS) is a language tool that provides a framework for constructing recognizers, compilers, and translators from grammatical descriptions containing C++ or Java actions [You can use PCCTS 1.xx to generate C-based parsers].

These are the static libraries for C++.

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

sudo apt-get -y install libantlr-dev

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

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

sudo apt -y install libantlr-dev

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

sudo aptitude install libantlr-dev

Summary

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