taglib-config command not found

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

Introduction

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

taglib-config: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: taglib-config: command not found

In Ubuntu taglib-config is provided by libtag1-dev package.

libtag1-dev is:

TagLib is a library for reading and editing audio meta data, commonly know as tags.

A clean, high level, C++ API to handling audio meta data.
Format specific APIs for advanced API users.
ID3v1, ID3v2, APE, FLAC, Xiph, iTunes-style MP4 and WMA tag formats.
MP3, MPC, FLAC, MP4, ASF, AIFF, WAV, TrueAudio, WavPack, Ogg FLAC, Ogg Vorbis, Speex and Opus file formats.
Basic audio file properties such as length, sample rate, etc.
Long term binary and source compatibility.
Extensible design, notably the ability to add other formats or extend
current formats as a library user.
Full support for unicode and internationalized tags.
Dual MPL and LGPL licenses.
No external toolkit dependencies.

This is the development package which contains headers for the TagLib Audio Meta-Data Library.

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

sudo apt-get -y install libtag1-dev

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

You can also use apt command to install libtag1-dev.

sudo apt -y install libtag1-dev

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

sudo aptitude install libtag1-dev

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