libftdi1-config command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix libftdi1-config command not found error message

Introduction

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

libftdi1-config: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: libftdi1-config: command not found

In Ubuntu libftdi1-config is provided by libftdi1-dev package.

libftdi1-dev is:

This package contains the header files and static library needed to compile applications that use libftdi1.

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

sudo apt-get -y install libftdi1-dev

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

You can also use apt command to install libftdi1-dev.

sudo apt -y install libftdi1-dev

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

sudo aptitude install libftdi1-dev

In this tutorial we learn how to fix libftdi1-config command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.