clang command not found

Introduction

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

clang: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: clang: command not found

Solutions to clang: command not found

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

In Ubuntu clang is provided by clang package.

clang is:

Clang project is a C, C++, Objective C and Objective C++ front-end for the LLVM compiler. Its goal is to offer a replacement to the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC).

Clang implements all of the ISO C++ 1998, 11 and 14 standards and also provides most of the support of C++17.

This is a dependency package providing the default clang compiler.

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

sudo apt-get -y install clang

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

You can also use apt command to install clang.

sudo apt -y install clang

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

sudo aptitude install clang

Summary

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