pythran-config command not found

Introduction

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

pythran-config: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: pythran-config: command not found

Solutions to pythran-config: command not found

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

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

python3-pythran is:

Pythran is an ahead of time compiler for a subset of the Python language, with a focus on scientific computing. It takes a Python module annotated with a few interface descriptions and turns it into a native Python module with the same interface, but (hopefully) faster.

This package contains the Python 3 version of the library.

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

sudo apt-get -y install python3-pythran

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

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

sudo apt -y install python3-pythran

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

sudo aptitude install python3-pythran

Summary

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