gcl command not found

Introduction

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

gcl: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: gcl: command not found

Solutions to gcl: command not found

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

In Ubuntu gcl is provided by gcl package.

gcl is:

GNU Common Lisp (GCL) is a Common Lisp compiler and interpreter implemented in C, and complying mostly with the standard set forth in the book “Common Lisp, the Language I”. It attempts to strike a useful middle ground in performance and portability from its design around C.

This package contains the Lisp system itself. Documentation is provided in the gcl-doc package.

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

sudo apt-get -y install gcl

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

You can also use apt command to install gcl.

sudo apt -y install gcl

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

sudo aptitude install gcl

Summary

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