ghdl-gcc command not found

Introduction

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

ghdl-gcc: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: ghdl-gcc: command not found

Solutions to ghdl-gcc: command not found

How To Fix ghdl-gcc: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu ghdl-gcc is provided by ghdl-gcc package.

ghdl-gcc is:

GHDL is a compiler and simulator for VHDL, a Hardware Description Language. GHDL is not an interpreter: it allows you to analyse and elaborate sources to generate machine code from your design. Native program execution is the only way for high speed simulation.

This package contains the compiler with the GCC backend.

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

sudo apt-get -y install ghdl-gcc

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

You can also use apt command to install ghdl-gcc.

sudo apt -y install ghdl-gcc

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

sudo aptitude install ghdl-gcc

Summary

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