polymake-config command not found

Introduction

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

polymake-config: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: polymake-config: command not found

Solutions to polymake-config: command not found

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

In Ubuntu polymake-config is provided by libpolymake-dev package.

libpolymake-dev is:

Polymake started out as a tool for the algorithmic treatment of convex polyhedra. By now it also deals with finite simplicial complexes, tight spans of finite metric spaces, polyhedral surfaces, and other discrete mathematical objects.

This package contains shared library symlinks.

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

sudo apt-get -y install libpolymake-dev

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

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

sudo apt -y install libpolymake-dev

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

sudo aptitude install libpolymake-dev

Summary

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