config_data command not found

Introduction

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

config_data: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: config_data: command not found

Solutions to config_data: command not found

How To Fix config_data: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu config_data is provided by libmodule-build-perl package.

libmodule-build-perl is:

Module::Build is a framework for easily building, testing and installing Perl packages. It is meant as a next-generation replacement for ExtUtils::MakeMaker and offers many additional features characteristic of a more modern install system, including simple subclassing for custom build actions.

Because it is written in Pure Perl, it has very few external dependencies. In particular, it allows for installation of packages on systems without ‘make’ and will even work without a shell. Its only prerequisites are modules that are included with perl 5.6.0 and it is core as of perl 5.10.

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

sudo apt-get -y install libmodule-build-perl

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

You can also use apt command to install libmodule-build-perl.

sudo apt -y install libmodule-build-perl

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

sudo aptitude install libmodule-build-perl

Summary

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