alpha-linux-gnu-gcov command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix alpha-linux-gnu-gcov command not found error message

Introduction

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

alpha-linux-gnu-gcov: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: alpha-linux-gnu-gcov: command not found

In Ubuntu alpha-linux-gnu-gcov is provided by gcc-alpha-linux-gnu package.

gcc-alpha-linux-gnu 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 alpha architecture.

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

sudo apt-get -y install gcc-alpha-linux-gnu

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

You can also use apt command to install gcc-alpha-linux-gnu.

sudo apt -y install gcc-alpha-linux-gnu

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

sudo aptitude install gcc-alpha-linux-gnu

In this tutorial we learn how to fix alpha-linux-gnu-gcov command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.