mm-config command not found

Introduction

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

mm-config: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: mm-config: command not found

Solutions to mm-config: command not found

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

In Ubuntu mm-config is provided by libmm-dev package.

libmm-dev is:

OSSP mm is a two layer abstraction library which simplifies the use of shared memory between forked (and therefore closely related) processes. It hides all platform-dependent aspects of the process from the user and provides a malloc(3)-style API.

This package contains the development files required to compile programs that use mm.

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

sudo apt-get -y install libmm-dev

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

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

sudo apt -y install libmm-dev

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

sudo aptitude install libmm-dev

Summary

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