gdbserver command not found

Introduction

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

gdbserver: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: gdbserver: command not found

Solutions to gdbserver: command not found

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

In Ubuntu gdbserver is provided by gdbserver package.

gdbserver is:

GDB is a source-level debugger, capable of breaking programs at any specific line, displaying variable values, and determining where errors occurred. Currently, gdb supports C, C++, D, Objective-C, Fortran, Java, OpenCL C, Pascal, assembly, Modula-2, Go, and Ada. A must-have for any serious programmer.

This package contains gdbserver. Install this to debug remotely from another system where GDB is installed.

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

sudo apt-get -y install gdbserver

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

You can also use apt command to install gdbserver.

sudo apt -y install gdbserver

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

sudo aptitude install gdbserver

Summary

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