arm-linux-gnueabi-ar command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix arm-linux-gnueabi-ar command not found error message

Introduction

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

arm-linux-gnueabi-ar: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: arm-linux-gnueabi-ar: command not found

In Ubuntu arm-linux-gnueabi-ar is provided by binutils-arm-linux-gnueabi package.

binutils-arm-linux-gnueabi is:

This package provides GNU assembler, linker and binary utilities for the arm-linux-gnueabi target.

You don’t need this package unless you plan to cross-compile programs for arm-linux-gnueabi and arm-linux-gnueabi is not your native platform.

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

sudo apt-get -y install binutils-arm-linux-gnueabi

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

You can also use apt command to install binutils-arm-linux-gnueabi.

sudo apt -y install binutils-arm-linux-gnueabi

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

sudo aptitude install binutils-arm-linux-gnueabi

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