ncxx4-config command not found

Introduction

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

ncxx4-config: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: ncxx4-config: command not found

Solutions to ncxx4-config: command not found

How To Fix ncxx4-config: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu ncxx4-config is provided by libnetcdf-c++4-dev package.

libnetcdf-c++4-dev is:

NetCDF (network Common Data Form) is a set of interfaces for array-oriented data access and a freely distributed collection of data access libraries for C, Fortran, C++, Java, and other languages. The netCDF libraries support a machine-independent format for representing scientific data. Together, the interfaces, libraries, and format support the creation, access, and sharing of scientific data.

This package contains headers for the C++ library.

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

sudo apt-get -y install libnetcdf-c++4-dev

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

You can also use apt command to install libnetcdf-c++4-dev.

sudo apt -y install libnetcdf-c++4-dev

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

sudo aptitude install libnetcdf-c++4-dev

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix ncxx4-config command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.