visp-config command not found

Introduction

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

visp-config: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: visp-config: command not found

Solutions to visp-config: command not found

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

In Ubuntu visp-config is provided by libvisp-dev package.

libvisp-dev is:

This is a metapackage providing development package necessary for development of ViSP (Visual Servoing Platform).

ViSP standing for Visual Servoing Platform is a modular cross platform library that allows prototyping and developing applications using visual tracking and visual servoing technics at the heart of the researches done by Inria Lagadic team. ViSP is able to compute control laws that can be applied to robotic systems. It provides a set of visual features that can be tracked using real time image processing or computer vision algorithms. ViSP provides also simulation capabilities.

ViSP can be useful in robotics, computer vision, augmented reality and computer animation.

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

sudo apt-get -y install libvisp-dev

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

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

sudo apt -y install libvisp-dev

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

sudo aptitude install libvisp-dev

Summary

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