log4cpp-config command not found

Introduction

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

log4cpp-config: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: log4cpp-config: command not found

Solutions to log4cpp-config: command not found

How To Fix log4cpp-config: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu log4cpp-config is provided by liblog4cpp5-dev package.

liblog4cpp5-dev is:

Log for C++ is a library of C++ classes for flexible logging to files, syslog and other destinations. It is modeled after the Log for Java library (http://jakarta.apache.org/log4j/), staying as close to their API as is reasonable.

This package contains the log4cpp development files.

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

sudo apt-get -y install liblog4cpp5-dev

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

You can also use apt command to install liblog4cpp5-dev.

sudo apt -y install liblog4cpp5-dev

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

sudo aptitude install liblog4cpp5-dev

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix log4cpp-config command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.