bash:cc:command not found

[snowbird91]

hey,
i am new to linux. i have installed FC4 on my laptop and when i try to run a simple c program it shows that the cc or gcc compiler is not found.

bash:cc:command not found.

Dosent fedora core ship with a c compiler or do i need to explicitly set the path.

[jim]

what is the output of this command

 rpm -qa | grep gcc

Do you have these packages?

[jim@notebook ~]$ rpm -qa | grep gcc
gcc-4.0.2-8.fc4
gcc-gfortran-4.0.2-8.fc4
libgcc-4.0.2-8.fc4
gcc-java-4.0.2-8.fc4
gcc-c++-4.0.2-8.fc4
[jim@notebook ~]$

[markkuk]

Yes, fedora ships with the GCC compiler suite, but perhaps you didn't install it on your system. Use the command:

yum groupinstall 'Development Tools'

[CrystalCowboy]

I'm guessing the compiler is not in your path. Your "execution path" is a list of directories which is searched for executables when you attempt to enter a command.

What shell are you using, tcsh or bash? To find out, do:
echo $SHELL
or:
grep user_name /etc/passwd

For tcsh, do the following:
echo $PATH
The output will be a list of directories. If /usr/bin is not in your 'execution path', it will not be found. You could fix it by putting a line like this in your shell startup config file (.tcshrc or .cshrc):
set path = ($path /usr/bin

You can do the equivalent things in bash, but the specific syntax is different, so I'll leave that to someone more familiar with bash.


Oh, to find out if you have the gcc compiler,
ls -l /usr/bin/gcc