x86_64-linux-musl-gcc command not found

Introduction

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

x86_64-linux-musl-gcc: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: x86_64-linux-musl-gcc: command not found

Solutions to x86_64-linux-musl-gcc: command not found

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

In Ubuntu x86_64-linux-musl-gcc is provided by musl-dev package.

musl-dev is:

musl is lightweight, fast, simple, free and strives to be correct in the sense of standards-conformance and safety.

This package contains the static linked libraries and the include files.

This package also contains the specs file and gcc wrapper script for cross-compilation. For the native musl-gcc script, install the musl-tools package.

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

sudo apt-get -y install musl-dev

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

You can also use apt command to install musl-dev.

sudo apt -y install musl-dev

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

sudo aptitude install musl-dev

Summary

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