spi-config command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix spi-config command not found error message

Introduction

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

spi-config: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: spi-config: command not found

In Ubuntu spi-config is provided by spi-tools package.

spi-tools is:

This package contains spi-config and spi-pipe, simple command line tools to help using Linux spidev devices.

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

sudo apt-get -y install spi-tools

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

You can also use apt command to install spi-tools.

sudo apt -y install spi-tools

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

sudo aptitude install spi-tools

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