linbox-config command not found

Introduction

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

linbox-config: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: linbox-config: command not found

Solutions to linbox-config: command not found

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

In Ubuntu linbox-config is provided by liblinbox-dev package.

liblinbox-dev is:

LinBox is a C++ template library for exact, high-performance linear algebra computation with dense, sparse, and structured matrices over the integers and over finite fields.

This package contains the LinBox development files.

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

sudo apt-get -y install liblinbox-dev

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

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

sudo apt -y install liblinbox-dev

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

sudo aptitude install liblinbox-dev

Summary

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