riscv64-unknown-elf-ranlib command not found

Introduction

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

riscv64-unknown-elf-ranlib: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: riscv64-unknown-elf-ranlib: command not found

Solutions to riscv64-unknown-elf-ranlib: command not found

How To Fix riscv64-unknown-elf-ranlib: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu riscv64-unknown-elf-ranlib is provided by binutils-riscv64-unknown-elf package.

binutils-riscv64-unknown-elf is:

Bare metal binutils for embedded RISC-V chips. The programs in this package are used to manipulate binary and object files that have been created for RISC-V architecture.

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

sudo apt-get -y install binutils-riscv64-unknown-elf

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

You can also use apt command to install binutils-riscv64-unknown-elf.

sudo apt -y install binutils-riscv64-unknown-elf

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

sudo aptitude install binutils-riscv64-unknown-elf

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix riscv64-unknown-elf-ranlib command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.