mapnik-config command not found

Introduction

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

mapnik-config: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: mapnik-config: command not found

Solutions to mapnik-config: command not found

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

In Ubuntu mapnik-config is provided by libmapnik-dev package.

libmapnik-dev is:

Mapnik is an OpenSource C++ toolkit for developing GIS (Geographic Information Systems) applications. At the core is a C++ shared library providing algorithms/patterns for spatial data access and visualization.

Essentially a collection of geographic objects (map, layer, datasource, feature, geometry), the library doesn’t rely on “windowing systems” and is intended to work in multi-threaded environments

This package contains the development headers, API documentation, and build utilities.

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

sudo apt-get -y install libmapnik-dev

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

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

sudo apt -y install libmapnik-dev

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

sudo aptitude install libmapnik-dev

Summary

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