x86_64-linux-gnu-python2-config command not found

Introduction

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

x86_64-linux-gnu-python2-config: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: x86_64-linux-gnu-python2-config: command not found

Solutions to x86_64-linux-gnu-python2-config: command not found

How To Fix x86_64-linux-gnu-python2-config: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu x86_64-linux-gnu-python2-config is provided by libpython2-dev package.

libpython2-dev is:

Header files, a static library and development tools for building Python2 modules, extending the Python2 interpreter or embedding Python2 in applications.

This package is a dependency package, which depends on Debian’s Python2 version (currently v2.7).

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

sudo apt-get -y install libpython2-dev

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

You can also use apt command to install libpython2-dev.

sudo apt -y install libpython2-dev

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

sudo aptitude install libpython2-dev

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix x86_64-linux-gnu-python2-config command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.