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How to fix fatal error: tclap/CmdLine.h: No such file or directory

Problem

When trying to build a C++ project that depends on TCLAP, you might encounter the following error:

example.txt
/home/uli/MyProject/device/device_cli.cpp:13:10: fatal error: tclap/CmdLine.h: No such file or directory
   13 | #include <tclap/CmdLine.h>
      |          ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
compilation terminated.
make[2]: *** [CMakeFiles/MyCLI.dir/build.make:79: CMakeFiles/MyCLI.dir/device/device_cli.cpp.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/Makefile2:349: CMakeFiles/MyCLI.dir/all] Error 2

## Solution

You need to install `libtclap-dev` to get the necessary header files for TCLAP. You can do this using the following command:

```bash {filename="install-tclap-dev.sh"}
sudo apt -y install libtclap-dev
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