Gcc error gcc error trying to exec cc1 execvp No such file or directory

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I have been successfully using gcc on Linux Mint 12  Now I am getting an error  I have recently been doing some  so builds and installed Clang not to long ago  but have successfully compiled since both of those events  so not sure what has changed  I used the GUI Software Manager to remove and then install gcc again  but the results are the same     code c ut  which gcc                                                                                                       usr bin gcc    code c ut  gcc -std c99 -Wall -Wextra -g -c object c                                                                       gcc  error trying to exec  cc1   execvp  No such file or directory

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On CentOS or Fedora  yum install gcc-c

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Amazon Linux  fixing GCC issue   Since this comes up as the first result on Google  I just wanted to document my experience with Amazon Linux  Installing gcc-c   noarch fixed the problem   sudo yum install gcc-c   noarch  Some people also reported this alternative as a solution   sudo yum install gcc72-c

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Just to document my trouble with this issue even though it just appears to be a specific example of other answers  as a relative newbie I feel like this might help others    Solution   I added   usr bin  to the beginning of PATH for a single session using PATH   usr path   PATH  and everything started to work fine    I used gedit to update the PATH permanently  after ensuring it wouldn t break my regular toolchains   Explanation   I have multiple toolchains installed on Ubuntu 14 04LTS and I use just a couple on a regular basis  When I tried to use gcc from the command line I got the issue describe by the OP    usr bin  is in the PATH but it is behind the other toolchain locations  Turns out the cc1 for those other toolchains is incompatible with gcc

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Make sure your GCC EXEC PREFIX env  is not exported and your PATH is exported to right tool chain

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You can fix that by running this  On Fedora   sudo dnf install redhat-rpm-config

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On Scientific Linux 6  similar to CentOS 6-- SL is now replaced by CentOS  AIUI   I had to use  usr sbin prelink -av -mR which I found suggested at https   stelfox net blog 2014 08 dependency-prelink-issues   Until I did that  I got a cc1 error gcc  error trying to exec  cc1   execvp  No such file or directory when I tried to compile  and gcc --version reported 4 2 2 instead of 4 4 7  despite that version being reported by yum   It may or may not be related  but the system had run out of space on  var

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I fixed this problem by explicitly installing g     sudo apt-get install g     Problem was encountered on Ubuntu 12 04 while installing pandas    Thanks perilbrain

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I experienced this soon after compiling and installing a shiny new GCC     version 8 1     on RHEL 7  In the end  it ended up being a permissions problem  my root umask was the culprit  I eventually found cc1 hiding in  usr local libexec    root nacelle gdb-8 1   ls -l  usr local libexec gcc x86 64-pc-linux-gnu 8 1 0    grep cc1 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 196481344 Jul  2 13 53 cc1   However  the permissions on the directories leading there didn t allow my standard user account    root nacelle gdb-8 1   ls -l  usr local libexec  total 4 drwxr-x--- 3 root root 4096 Jul  2 13 53 gcc  root nacelle gdb-8 1   ls -l  usr local libexec gcc  total 4 drwxr-x--- 3 root root 4096 Jul  2 13 53 x86 64-pc-linux-gnu  root nacelle gdb-8 1   ls -l  usr local libexec gcc x86 64-pc-linux-gnu  total 4 drwxr-x--- 4 root root 4096 Jul  2 13 53 8 1 0   A quick recursive chmod to add world read execute permissions fixed it right up    root nacelle 8 1 0   cd  usr local libexec  root nacelle lib   ls -l   grep gcc drwxr-x---  3 root root     4096 Jul  2 13 53 gcc  root nacelle lib   chmod -R o rx gcc  root nacelle lib   ls -l   grep gcc drwxr-xr-x  3 root root     4096 Jul  2 13 53 gcc   And now gcc can find cc1 when I ask it to compile something

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It s in this package  Ubuntu 19 04           sudo apt install g  -6

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This is because gcc calls many other executables to complete the processing of the input  and cc1 is not in the included path   On shell type whereis cc1  If cc1 is found  it s better go ahead and create a softlink in the directory of gcc  otherwise  cc1 is not installed and you have to install gcc-c   using the package manager

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I experienced this problem on a reasonably fresh install of Fedora 27   I tried all the other suggestions or their equivalents  installing the various packages either said  already installed  or installed something new which didn t help   Fixed with    dnf remove gcc   dnf install gcc gcc-c

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I ran into a similar issue today - a co-worker could not build his software but I could build it  When he ran gcc it could not find cc1   His executable path looked reasonable but the fact that I could not easily replicate the failure suggested something in his environment as the cause   Eventually we found GCC EXEC PREFIX defined in his environment which was the culprit and was misleading gcc in the search for cc1  This was part of his shell startup scripts and was meant to work around a limitation on a SPARC Solaris system that is no longer in use  The problem was resolved by not setting this environment variable   http   gcc gnu org onlinedocs gcc Environment-Variables html

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Just to complement  maxkoryukov s answer regarding Alpine   The equivalent to Debian s build-essential in Alpine is build-base  In fact  the above mentioned alpine-sdk depends on build-base       apk info -R build-base build-base-0 5-r1 depends on  binutils file gcc g   make libc-dev fortify-headers      apk info -R alpine-sdk alpine-sdk-1 0-r0 depends on  abuild build-base git

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On debian   ubuntu I fixed this problem by reinstalling build-essential   sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install --reinstall build-essential

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In my rare case it was color wrapper who spoiled gcc  Solved by disabling cw excluding its directory  usr libexec cw from PATH environmental variable

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This might also be the displayed error message if you try to run 32-bit gcc binaries on a 64-bit OS and missing 32-bit glibc  According to this readme   For 64 bit system  32 bit libc and libncurses are required to run the tools    In this case there is no problem with the path and cc1 is actually found  but reported as missing as no 32 bit glibc

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Documenting another source of errors for installing gcc-10 on Amazon Linux 2 from source  After running sudo make install and then testing gcc-10 I got this error  gcc-10  fatal error  cannot execute    cc1     execvp  No such file or directory  The reason was that the new g   directories under  usr local  were created by sudo make install have 700 permissions so non-root users cannot see the directories content  I fixed it by running sudo find  usr local  -type d -exec chmod 755        Note that I followed this snippet https   gist github com nchaigne ad06bc867f911a3c0d32939f1e930a11

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Explanation The error message told us  that the build-time dependency  in this case it is cc1  was not found  so all we need     install the appropriate package to the system  using package manager    from sources    another way  What is cc1   cc1 is the internal command which takes preprocessed C-language files and converts them to assembly  It s the actual part that compiles C  For C    there s cc1plus  and other internal commands for different languages   taken from this answer by Alan Shutko  Solution for  Ubuntu   Linux Mint sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install --reinstall build-essential  Solution for  Docker-alpine environment If you are in docker-alpine environment install the build-base package by adding this to your Dockerfile  RUN apk add build-base  Better package name provided by Pablo Castellano  More details here  If you need more packages for building purposes  consider adding of the alpine-sdk package  RUN apk add alpine-sdk  Taken from github Solution for  CentOS Fedora This answer contains instructions for CentOS and Fedora Linux Solution for  Amazon Linux sudo yum install gcc72-c    Taken from this comment by CoderChris You could also try to install missed dependencies by this  though  it is said to not to solve the issue   sudo yum install gcc-c   noarch  Taken from this answer

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What helped for me was to use llvm-gcc instead   ln -s   which llvm-gcc   usr local bin gcc

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Why does this happen  When you install a fresh copy of linux  gcc compiler comes pre-packed with it  It only contains the files and binaries which are used to run the linux to save space and time  obviously   How to solve this error  All you need is to update your packages through the package manager and reinstall the build-essential packages  The commands might be different on different kernels

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yum install gcc-c     did the fix

[gcc] Gcc error: gcc: error trying to exec 'cc1': execvp: No such file or directory

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