swish-config command not found

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

Introduction

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

swish-config: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: swish-config: command not found

In Ubuntu swish-config is provided by swish-e-dev package.

swish-e-dev is:

Static libraries and headers for developing application with SWISH-Enhanced, a fast, powerful, flexible, and easy to use system indexing engine.

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

sudo apt-get -y install swish-e-dev

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

You can also use apt command to install swish-e-dev.

sudo apt -y install swish-e-dev

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

sudo aptitude install swish-e-dev

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