arm-linux-gnueabihf-gcc-nm command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix arm-linux-gnueabihf-gcc-nm command not found error message

Introduction

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

arm-linux-gnueabihf-gcc-nm: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: arm-linux-gnueabihf-gcc-nm: command not found

In Ubuntu arm-linux-gnueabihf-gcc-nm is provided by gcc-arm-linux-gnueabihf package.

gcc-arm-linux-gnueabihf 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 armhf architecture.

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

sudo apt-get -y install gcc-arm-linux-gnueabihf

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

You can also use apt command to install gcc-arm-linux-gnueabihf.

sudo apt -y install gcc-arm-linux-gnueabihf

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

sudo aptitude install gcc-arm-linux-gnueabihf

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