otfconfig command not found

Introduction

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

otfconfig: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: otfconfig: command not found

Solutions to otfconfig: command not found

How To Fix otfconfig: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu otfconfig is provided by libopen-trace-format-dev package.

libopen-trace-format-dev is:

OTF is a standard trace format used by several high-performance tools, using an ASCII encoding, which supports multiple streams. The libotf provides support for reading/writing them.

This package contains development files to compile against libopen-trace-format.

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

sudo apt-get -y install libopen-trace-format-dev

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

You can also use apt command to install libopen-trace-format-dev.

sudo apt -y install libopen-trace-format-dev

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

sudo aptitude install libopen-trace-format-dev

Summary

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