pth-config command not found

Introduction

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

pth-config: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: pth-config: command not found

Solutions to pth-config: command not found

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

In Ubuntu pth-config is provided by libpth-dev package.

libpth-dev is:

Pth is a very portable POSIX/ANSI-C based library for Unix platforms which provides non-preemptive priority-based scheduling for multiple threads of execution (“multithreading”) inside server applications. All threads run in the same address space of the server application, but each thread has its own individual program-counter, run-time stack, signal mask and errno variable.

This package contains the development files.

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

sudo apt-get -y install libpth-dev

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

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

sudo apt -y install libpth-dev

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

sudo aptitude install libpth-dev

Summary

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