Question

I have wrote a c program in gedit and opened terminal where the following symbol shown as

>

and now i tried to execute the program as

gcc filename.c

and am getting the output as

gcc: command not found

what is the error in doing this application?

Answer 1

That means that gcc is not installed. The steps for installing it depend on which Linux distro you are using. For Debian-based systems, you should try

sudo apt-get install build-essential

For Red Hat-based systems, try

sudo yum install gcc