freealut-config command not found

Introduction

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

freealut-config: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: freealut-config: command not found

Solutions to freealut-config: command not found

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

In Ubuntu freealut-config is provided by libalut-dev package.

libalut-dev is:

freealut is a free implementation of OpenAL’s ALUT standard. ALUT is a set of portable functions which remove the annoying details of getting an audio application started. It is the OpenAL counterpart of what GLUT is for OpenGL.

This package contains libraries and headers suitable for software development with ALUT.

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

sudo apt-get -y install libalut-dev

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

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

sudo apt -y install libalut-dev

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

sudo aptitude install libalut-dev

Summary

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