rustc command not found

Introduction

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

rustc: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: rustc: command not found

Solutions to rustc: command not found

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

In Ubuntu rustc is provided by rustc package.

rustc is:

Rust is a curly-brace, block-structured expression language. It visually resembles the C language family, but differs significantly in syntactic and semantic details. Its design is oriented toward concerns of “programming in the large”, that is, of creating and maintaining boundaries - both abstract and operational - that preserve large-system integrity, availability and concurrency.

It supports a mixture of imperative procedural, concurrent actor, object-oriented and pure functional styles. Rust also supports generic programming and meta-programming, in both static and dynamic styles.

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

sudo apt-get -y install rustc

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

You can also use apt command to install rustc.

sudo apt -y install rustc

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

sudo aptitude install rustc

Summary

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