If you get the following command when trying to build a package from source on linux (Fedora 8 in my case), chances are you don’t have GCC installed:

configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH
See `config.log' for more details.

The solution is simple, run one of the following commands to install a C compiler:

CentOS: yum -y install gcc
Fedora: up2date -i gcc

For me, this installed a few additional helper packages to get me started compiling C-code:

Installing:
 gcc                 x86_64      4.1.2-33             fedora              5.3 M
Installing for dependencies:
 cpp                 x86_64      4.1.2-33             fedora              2.9 M
 glibc-devel         x86_64      2.7-2                fedora              2.4 M
 glibc-headers       x86_64      2.7-2                fedora              599 k
 kernel-headers      x86_64      2.6.26.3-14.fc8      updates-newkey      746 k

This entry was posted on Sunday, September 14th, 2008 at 1:42 pm and is tagged with fedora up2date, fedora 2, c compiler, glibc, fedora 5, c code, cpp, devel, yum, kernel, linux. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback.

17 Responses to “configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH”

1. Cucu says:

   12/25/2011 at 11:40 am

   Thank you so much! This helped me!

   Reply
2. ESalcedo says:

   7/8/2011 at 1:31 pm

   Thanks for the info, yum -y install gcc worked in my Fedora14…

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3. Shiki says:

   5/10/2011 at 4:54 am

   Thanks. Good thing this is on top of Google search.

   Reply
4. Fabián says:

   10/4/2010 at 12:05 am

   Yeah! It worked for me

   Reply
5. Ketan Vijayvargiya says:

   9/22/2010 at 9:29 am

   Great piece of info.. Thanks a ton!

   Reply
6. Ruchira Sahan says:

   9/18/2010 at 12:49 am

   It worked!

   Reply
7. gbs says:

   5/19/2010 at 9:22 pm

   It not works!

   Loading “rhnplugin” plugin
   Loading “security” plugin
   This system is not registered with RHN.
   RHN support will be disabled.
   Setting up Install Process
   Parsing package install arguments
   No package gcc available.
   Nothing to do

   Reply
8. CyberMax says:

   4/24/2010 at 7:17 am

   Yes, it works

   Reply
9. jason says:

   4/14/2010 at 5:33 pm

   wow… thanks been looking everywhere for this!! much appreciated.

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10. Tom says:

    3/10/2010 at 5:53 am

    yum -y install gcc

    This command worked great for me on Fedora

    Thanks

    Reply
11. cabletelcom says:

    12/14/2009 at 9:21 pm

    It works for me CentOS

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12. Info Gaptek says:

    12/5/2009 at 3:18 am

    Thanks Elliot!
    It works for me on CentOS.

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13. Newbie says:

    12/3/2009 at 2:40 am

    i get this error no acceptable c compiler found in $PATH

    then i tried using
    yum -y install gcc

    its says :
    cannot find valid base URL for repo: update

    Reply
14. kodegeek says:

    8/1/2009 at 5:31 am

    I’m extremely new on fedora. i tried to execute following
    “up2date -i gcc”

    but it shows following error
    “bash: up2date: command not found”
    can you help?

    Thanks

    Reply
    • Elliott Back says:

      8/1/2009 at 3:32 pm

      `yum install up2date` ?

      Reply
15. Lucky says:

    1/24/2009 at 12:28 am

    Good information! I'm new to linux..
    I'm using yum for fedora, it works too!
    is there any way to install gcc without yum or up2date? (i mean manually install it)

    thanx!

    Reply
16. Peter says:

    11/6/2008 at 9:38 pm

    Thanks , man !
    This information been really handy to me .

    Reply