cxxtools-config command not found

Introduction

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

cxxtools-config: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: cxxtools-config: command not found

Solutions to cxxtools-config: command not found

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

In Ubuntu cxxtools-config is provided by libcxxtools-dev package.

libcxxtools-dev is:

cxxtools contains an argument-parser, a base-64 encoder/decoder, a C++ interface to iconv, md5-stream for easy MD5 calculation, threading classes, socket classes, a dynamic exception-safe buffer, a wrapper for dlopen/dlsym, a pool template (e.g., for a connection pool in a multi-threaded application), query_params, and a class for easy parsing of CGI parameters (GET and POST) in a CGI program.

This package has the development headers and the static libraries.

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

sudo apt-get -y install libcxxtools-dev

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

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

sudo apt -y install libcxxtools-dev

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

sudo aptitude install libcxxtools-dev

Summary

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