mips64-linux-gnuabi64-gcc-ranlib command not found

Introduction

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

mips64-linux-gnuabi64-gcc-ranlib: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: mips64-linux-gnuabi64-gcc-ranlib: command not found

Solutions to mips64-linux-gnuabi64-gcc-ranlib: command not found

How To Fix mips64-linux-gnuabi64-gcc-ranlib: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu mips64-linux-gnuabi64-gcc-ranlib is provided by gcc-mips64-linux-gnuabi64 package.

gcc-mips64-linux-gnuabi64 is:

This is the GNU C compiler, a fairly portable optimizing compiler for C.

This is a dependency package providing the default GNU C cross-compiler for the mips64 architecture.

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

sudo apt-get -y install gcc-mips64-linux-gnuabi64

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

You can also use apt command to install gcc-mips64-linux-gnuabi64.

sudo apt -y install gcc-mips64-linux-gnuabi64

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

sudo aptitude install gcc-mips64-linux-gnuabi64

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix mips64-linux-gnuabi64-gcc-ranlib command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.