hppa64-linux-gnu-elfedit command not found

Introduction

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

hppa64-linux-gnu-elfedit: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: hppa64-linux-gnu-elfedit: command not found

Solutions to hppa64-linux-gnu-elfedit: command not found

How To Fix hppa64-linux-gnu-elfedit: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu hppa64-linux-gnu-elfedit is provided by binutils-hppa64-linux-gnu package.

binutils-hppa64-linux-gnu is:

The programs in this package are used to assemble, link and manipulate binary and object files. They may be used in conjunction with a compiler and various libraries to build programs.

This package is needed to build an 64-bit kernel for 64-bit hppa machines.

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

sudo apt-get -y install binutils-hppa64-linux-gnu

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

You can also use apt command to install binutils-hppa64-linux-gnu.

sudo apt -y install binutils-hppa64-linux-gnu

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

sudo aptitude install binutils-hppa64-linux-gnu

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix hppa64-linux-gnu-elfedit command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.