gfortran command not found

Introduction

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

gfortran: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: gfortran: command not found

Solutions to gfortran: command not found

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

In Ubuntu gfortran is provided by gfortran package.

gfortran is:

This is the GNU Fortran 95 compiler, which compiles Fortran 95 on platforms supported by the gcc compiler. It uses the gcc backend to generate optimized code.

This is a dependency package providing the default GNU Fortran 95 compiler.

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

sudo apt-get -y install gfortran

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

You can also use apt command to install gfortran.

sudo apt -y install gfortran

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

sudo aptitude install gfortran

Summary

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