gforth command not found

Introduction

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

gforth: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: gforth: command not found

Solutions to gforth: command not found

How To Fix gforth: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu gforth is provided by gforth package.

gforth is:

This is the GNU’ish implementation of a Forth programming environment.

Forth, as a language, is best known for being stack-based, and completely extensible. Each Forth environment provides one or more dictionaries of pre-defined words, and programming in Forth consists of defining and executing new words that are combinations of previously defined words. It has been said that learning Forth changes forever the way you think about writing programs.

For more information about Forth, visit the Forth Interest Group web site at http://www.forth.org/fig.html.

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

sudo apt-get -y install gforth

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

You can also use apt command to install gforth.

sudo apt -y install gforth

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

sudo aptitude install gforth

Summary

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