-bash: gccL command not found
 

New to linux. Gcc seems to be installed by not configured maybe? Below are some command line results. Is gcc installed, and if so, how do I configure it so it run properly? Thank you.

rpm -qa | grep gcc

libgcc-4.1.2-44.el5
gcc-4.1.2-44.el5
gcc-gfortran-4.1.2-44.el5
compat-libgcc-296-2.96-138
compat-gcc-34-g77-3.4.6-4
compat-gcc-34-c++-3.4.6-4
gcc-c++-4.1.2-44.el5
compat-gcc-34-3.4.6-4

gcc --version

-bash: gcc: command not found

which gcc

/usr/bin/which: no gcc in (/usr/ora/d02/oracle/fdidb/9.2.0/Apache/perl/bin:/usr/ora/d02/oracle/fdidb/9.2.0/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/ora/d02/oracle/fdidb/9.2.0/jre/1.4.2/bin:/usr/ccs/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/local/bin:/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/home/oracle/bin:/usr/ora/d02/oracle/fdidb/9.2.0/jre/1.4.2/bin:.)

rpm -ql gcc-4.1.2-44.el5 | egrep '/usr/bin'

Use the above command , and u will know where gcc is installed.

rpm -ql gcc-4.1.2-44.el5 | egrep '/usr/bin'
/usr/bin/c89
/usr/bin/c99
/usr/bin/cc
/usr/bin/gcc
/usr/bin/gcov
/usr/bin/i386-redhat-linux-gcc
/usr/bin/protoize
/usr/bin/unprotoize

So this tells me where gcc is installed. Is making sure the location is in the PATH enough?

Yes. But the output from the which command shows that /usr/bin is actually in your PATH (indeed if it were not there, a lot of other things could not work). At this point you can check the integrity of the gcc package:
and eventually if /usr/bin/gcc is a broken link, instead of a real executable. I assume the error message shown in the title of this thread is affected by a typo:

Yes, a typo should be gcc:


Here's my result from rpm -V gcc

.M...... /usr/bin/gcc
prelink: /lib/libc-2.5.so has a dependency cycle
prelink: /usr/bin/gcov: at least one of file's dependencies has changed since prelinking
S.?..... /usr/bin/gcov
prelink: /lib/libc-2.5.so has a dependency cycle
prelink: /usr/bin/i386-redhat-linux-gcc: at least one of file's dependencies has changed since prelinking
S.?..... /usr/bin/i386-redhat-linux-gcc
prelink: /lib/libc-2.5.so has a dependency cycle
prelink: /usr/bin/protoize: at least one of file's dependencies has changed since prelinking
S.?..... /usr/bin/protoize
prelink: /lib/libc-2.5.so has a dependency cycle
prelink: /usr/bin/unprotoize: at least one of file's dependencies has changed since prelinking
S.?..... /usr/bin/unprotoize
prelink: /lib/libc-2.5.so has a dependency cycle
prelink: /usr/libexec/gcc/i386-redhat-linux/4.1.1/collect2: at least one of file's dependencies has changed since prelinking
S.?..... /usr/libexec/gcc/i386-redhat-linux/4.1.1/collect2

This confirms that the files originally installed by the gcc package have been modified. In particular, M means "Mode differs (includes permissions and file type)". I suspect that this is due to a subsequent installation of the compat-gcc-34 package. Can you verify what /usr/bin/gcc actually is? For example, a simple
should give some clue.

ls -l /usr/bin/gcc*

-rwxr-xr-x 2 root root 92956 Jun 5 2007 /usr/bin/gcc34
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2018 Jun 5 2007 /usr/bin/gccmakedep
-rwxr-xr-x 2 root root 202368 Nov 5 2008 /usr/bin/gcc.orig
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 914 May 22 2008 /usr/bin/gcc.original

As you can see, gcc is not there! However, looking at its size, I can confirm that /usr/bin/gcc.orig is the original /usr/bin/gcc executable (that one provided by the gcc-4.1.2 package). The question now is how to restore the gcc package. If you're not the system administrator of this machine, you have to ask him/her to restore it for you. Otherwise, you can try to rename /usr/bin/gcc.orig to /usr/bin/gcc. I doubt the solution can be so simple, due to the number of warnings you got from the package verification.

You have to investigate the reasons of these modifications and then eventually you can try to force the gcc re-installation:

Thank you for the suggestions.