geos-config command not found

Introduction

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

geos-config: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: geos-config: command not found

Solutions to geos-config: command not found

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

In Ubuntu geos-config is provided by libgeos-dev package.

libgeos-dev is:

GEOS provides a spatial object model and fundamental geometric functions. It implements the geometry model defined in the OpenGIS Consortium Simple Features Specification for SQL.

This package contains the headers and libraries needed to develop programs using GEOS.

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

sudo apt-get -y install libgeos-dev

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

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

sudo apt -y install libgeos-dev

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

sudo aptitude install libgeos-dev

Summary

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