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

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

1. Peter says:

   11/6/2008 at 9:38 pm

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

   Reply
2. 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
3. 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