apr-1-config command not found

Introduction

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

apr-1-config: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: apr-1-config: command not found

Solutions to apr-1-config: command not found

How To Fix apr-1-config: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu apr-1-config is provided by libapr1-dev package.

libapr1-dev is:

APR is Apache’s Portable Runtime Library, designed to be a support library that provides a predictable and consistent interface to underlying platform-specific implementations.

This package contains development headers for APR.

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

sudo apt-get -y install libapr1-dev

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

You can also use apt command to install libapr1-dev.

sudo apt -y install libapr1-dev

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

sudo aptitude install libapr1-dev

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix apr-1-config command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.