ghc-8.8.4 command not found

Introduction

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

ghc-8.8.4: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: ghc-8.8.4: command not found

Solutions to ghc-8.8.4: command not found

How To Fix ghc-8.8.4: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu ghc-8.8.4 is provided by ghc package.

ghc is:

The Glorious Glasgow Haskell Compilation system (GHC) is a compiler for Haskell.

Haskell is “the” standard lazy functional programming language. The language definition and additional documentation can be found in the `haskell-doc' package. Alternatively, there is an online version at http://haskell.org/onlinereport/.

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

sudo apt-get -y install ghc

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

You can also use apt command to install ghc.

sudo apt -y install ghc

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

sudo aptitude install ghc

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix ghc-8.8.4 command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.