arm-none-eabi-ranlib command not found

Introduction

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

arm-none-eabi-ranlib: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: arm-none-eabi-ranlib: command not found

Solutions to arm-none-eabi-ranlib: command not found

How To Fix arm-none-eabi-ranlib: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu arm-none-eabi-ranlib is provided by binutils-arm-none-eabi package.

binutils-arm-none-eabi is:

Bare metal binutils for embedded ARM chips using Cortex-M0/M0+/M3/M4 and Cortex-R4/R5/R7 processors. The programs in this package are used to manipulate binary and object files that may have been created for Cortex architecture.

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

sudo apt-get -y install binutils-arm-none-eabi

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

You can also use apt command to install binutils-arm-none-eabi.

sudo apt -y install binutils-arm-none-eabi

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

sudo aptitude install binutils-arm-none-eabi

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix arm-none-eabi-ranlib command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.