nf-config command not found

Introduction

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

nf-config: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: nf-config: command not found

Solutions to nf-config: command not found

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

In Ubuntu nf-config is provided by libnetcdff-dev package.

libnetcdff-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 Fortran library.

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

sudo apt-get -y install libnetcdff-dev

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

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

sudo apt -y install libnetcdff-dev

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

sudo aptitude install libnetcdff-dev

Summary

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