python3-config command not found

Introduction

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

python3-config: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: python3-config: command not found

Solutions to python3-config: command not found

How To Fix python3-config: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu python3-config is provided by python3-dev package.

python3-dev is:

Header files, a static library and development tools for building Python modules, extending the Python interpreter or embedding Python in applications.

This package is a dependency package, which depends on Debian’s default Python 3 version’s headers (currently v3.10).

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

sudo apt-get -y install python3-dev

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

You can also use apt command to install python3-dev.

sudo apt -y install python3-dev

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

sudo aptitude install python3-dev

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix python3-config command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.