pcre-config command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix pcre-config command not found error message

Introduction

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

pcre-config: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: pcre-config: command not found

In Ubuntu pcre-config is provided by libpcre3-dev package.

libpcre3-dev is:

This is a library of functions to support regular expressions whose syntax and semantics are as close as possible to those of the Perl 5 language.

New packages should use the newer pcre2 packages, and existing packages should migrate to pcre2.

This package contains the development files, including headers, static libraries, and documentation.

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

sudo apt-get -y install libpcre3-dev

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

You can also use apt command to install libpcre3-dev.

sudo apt -y install libpcre3-dev

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

sudo aptitude install libpcre3-dev

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