ppl-config command not found

Introduction

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

ppl-config: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: ppl-config: command not found

Solutions to ppl-config: command not found

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

In Ubuntu ppl-config is provided by ppl-dev package.

ppl-dev is:

The Parma Polyhedra Library (PPL) is a C++ library for the manipulation of (not necessarily closed) convex polyhedra and other numerical abstractions. The applications of convex polyhedra include program analysis, optimized compilation, integer and combinatorial optimization and statistical data-editing. The Parma Polyhedra Library is user friendly (you write `x + 2y + 5z <= 7’ when you mean it), fully dynamic (available virtual memory is the only limitation to the dimension of anything), written in standard C++, exception-safe, rather efficient and thoroughly documented.

This package provides the ppl-config binary.

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

sudo apt-get -y install ppl-dev

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

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

sudo apt -y install ppl-dev

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

sudo aptitude install ppl-dev

Summary

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