ccgnu2-config command not found

Introduction

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

ccgnu2-config: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: ccgnu2-config: command not found

Solutions to ccgnu2-config: command not found

How To Fix ccgnu2-config: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu ccgnu2-config is provided by libcommoncpp2-dev package.

libcommoncpp2-dev is:

Common C++ is a GNU package which offers portable “abstraction” of system services such as threads, networks, and sockets. Common C++ also offers individual frameworks generally useful to developing portable C++ applications including a object persistence engine, math libraries, threading, sockets, etc. Common C++ is small, and highly portable. Common C++ will support most Unix operating systems as well as Win32, in addition to GNU/Linux.

This package contains the development files.

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

sudo apt-get -y install libcommoncpp2-dev

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

You can also use apt command to install libcommoncpp2-dev.

sudo apt -y install libcommoncpp2-dev

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

sudo aptitude install libcommoncpp2-dev

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix ccgnu2-config command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.