x86_64-linux-gnu-valac command not found

Introduction

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

x86_64-linux-gnu-valac: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: x86_64-linux-gnu-valac: command not found

Solutions to x86_64-linux-gnu-valac: command not found

How To Fix x86_64-linux-gnu-valac: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu x86_64-linux-gnu-valac is provided by valac package.

valac is:

Vala is a new programming language that aims to bring modern programming language features to GNOME developers without imposing any additional runtime requirements and without using a different ABI compared to applications and libraries written in C.

valac, the Vala compiler, is a self-hosting compiler that translates Vala source code into C source and header files. It uses the GObject type system to create classes and interfaces declared in the Vala source code. This package also contains the vala-gen-introspect and vapigen binaries that will automatically generate Vala bindings.

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

sudo apt-get -y install valac

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

You can also use apt command to install valac.

sudo apt -y install valac

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

sudo aptitude install valac

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix x86_64-linux-gnu-valac command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.