gst-config command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix gst-config command not found error message

Introduction

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

gst-config: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: gst-config: command not found

In Ubuntu gst-config is provided by libgst-dev package.

libgst-dev is:

This package contains static library and headers files for the GNU Smalltalk virtual machine.

For more information on GNU Smalltalk see the gnu-smalltalk package.

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

sudo apt-get -y install libgst-dev

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

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

sudo apt -y install libgst-dev

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

sudo aptitude install libgst-dev

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