mecab-config command not found

Introduction

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

mecab-config: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: mecab-config: command not found

Solutions to mecab-config: command not found

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

In Ubuntu mecab-config is provided by libmecab-dev package.

libmecab-dev is:

This package provides header files which are necessary to development programs using runtime libraries of Mecab, that is a Japanese morphological analysis system.

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

sudo apt-get -y install libmecab-dev

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

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

sudo apt -y install libmecab-dev

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

sudo aptitude install libmecab-dev

Summary

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