i686-w64-mingw32-gdb command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix i686-w64-mingw32-gdb command not found error message

Introduction

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

i686-w64-mingw32-gdb: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: i686-w64-mingw32-gdb: command not found

In Ubuntu i686-w64-mingw32-gdb is provided by gdb-mingw-w64 package.

gdb-mingw-w64 is:

MinGW-w64 provides a development and runtime environment for 32- and 64-bit Windows applications using the GNU Compiler Collection (gcc).

This package contains the gdb debugger which can be used with a Windows-hosted gdbserver to debug programs running on Windows hosts.

The gdb-mingw-w64-target package contains gdbserver and gdbreplay for 32- and 64-bit Windows.

The non-free gdb-doc package contains the manual pages for gdb.

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

sudo apt-get -y install gdb-mingw-w64

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

You can also use apt command to install gdb-mingw-w64.

sudo apt -y install gdb-mingw-w64

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

sudo aptitude install gdb-mingw-w64

In this tutorial we learn how to fix i686-w64-mingw32-gdb command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.