pkg-config command not found

Introduction

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

pkg-config: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: pkg-config: command not found

Solutions to pkg-config: command not found

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

In Ubuntu pkg-config is provided by pkg-config package.

pkg-config is:

pkg-config is a system for managing library compile and link flags that works with automake and autoconf.

Increasingly libraries ship with “.pc” files that allow querying of the compiler and linker flags needed to use them through the pkg-config(1) program.

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

sudo apt-get -y install pkg-config

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

You can also use apt command to install pkg-config.

sudo apt -y install pkg-config

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

sudo aptitude install pkg-config

Summary

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