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How to install GCC and GDB for WSL(windows subsytem for linux)?

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You need to:

Update and upgrade:

Copy$ sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade -y

2.Clean unrequired packages:

Copy$ sudo apt autoremove -y

Install GCC:

Copy$ sudo apt-get install gcc -y

Check and confirmed installed gcc version:

Copygcc --version

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You need to:

Update and upgrade:

Copy$ sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade -y

2.Clean unrequired packages:

Copy$ sudo apt autoremove -y

Install GCC:

Copy$ sudo apt-get install gcc -y

Check and confirmed installed gcc version:

Copygcc --version

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I too was trying to install gcc for my WSL.

I first tried the "sudo apt-get install gcc" to begin with (after coming here).
But then after entering "gcc --version", the terminal spat out:

Command 'gcc' not found, but can be installed with:
sudo apt install gcc

I then just tried just "sudo apt install gcc" like the terminal had suggested.
Then after again entering "gcc --version", the terminal spat out:

gcc (Ubuntu 13.2.0-23ubuntu4) 13.2.0
Copyright (C) 2023 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

Suggesting that it worked.

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How to Install GCC Compiler on Windows?

May 21, 2025 - If you prefer a Linux-like environment on Windows, the best way to install GCC is through Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL).

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HOW to ACCESS GCC installed on windows in wsl

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January 5, 2024

GCC doesn't install ?

As somebody else suggested make sure you run apt-get update first.

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Installing Windows Subsystem for Linux - IBM Documentation

September 30, 2025 - To work with COBOL in Rule Designer, you must install Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) with GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) support.

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Why compiling? You should be able to install the package:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-toolchain-r/test
sudo apt update
sudo apt install g++-7 -y

Verify using:

gcc-7 --version

See How to install gcc-7 or clang 4.0?

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run the following

sudo apt install aptitude
sudo aptitude install gcc-7 g++-7

or

sudo apt install aptitude && sudo aptitude install golang gcc-7 g++-7

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Using C++ and WSL in VS Code

November 3, 2021 - In this tutorial, you will configure Visual Studio Code to use the GCC C++ compiler (g++) and GDB debugger on Ubuntu in the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). GCC stands for GNU Compiler Collection; GDB is the GNU debugger.

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November 10, 2018 - Go to aka.ms/wslstore and install Ubuntu. Run bash and create a user account with a password. Make a “sudo apt update” to update the repo packages. Then you can do “sudo apt install gcc” and “sudo apt install g++”.

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gcc-11 for Ubuntu 24.04.6 on WSL2 | Windows 11 Forum

June 30, 2023 - sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-toolchain-r/ppa -y sudo apt install -y gcc-11 gcc-11 --version · Click to expand... change the toolchain-r/ppa to toolchain-r/test This worked in a Native ubuntu install --should also work AFAIK on WSL.

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You need to run sudo apt update before the package can be installed. Then sudo apt install gcc.

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February 26, 2021 -

I want to know, is there a difference between the GCC compiler on Linux and on Windows. At my faculty they tell us to use a Linux virtual machine to run our programs. I find this slow. I, instead, use WSL2. Is there a difference between using that and a Linux VM, and is there a difference between just using Windows and using Linux.

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As far as GCC is concerned it runs on Linux. It does not matter whether that’s a native Linux or any kind of emulation, simulation, virtualization. A “faked” Linux may have limitations compared to a real one, but that’s a different topic and has nothing to do with GCC. There’s also an option to run GCC natively on Windows: as a part of MinGW.

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WSL2 is a Linux VM that runs typical Linux Kernel. GCC will not know if it runs on Linux or on WSL2 in Windows. It's officially supported workflow for building Linux applications on Windows, Visual Studio even have a lot of tooling for it. Visual Studio: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/cppblog/c-with-visual-studio-2019-and-windows-subsystem-for-linux-wsl/ VSCode: https://code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2019/09/03/wsl2

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HOW to ACCESS GCC installed on windows in wsl - Microsoft Q&A

January 5, 2024 - It's supported to run Windows executables from WSL and the Windows file systems are mounted under /mnt. Sorry I do not use msys2 but you can see if the gcc.exe can run normally from bash.

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Building GCC 10 on Windows Subsystem for Linux | Solarian Programmer

May 4, 2017 - Let’s make sure that you have an up to date system, start WSL and write: ... 1 cd ~ 2 wget https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/gcc/gcc-10.1.0/gcc-10.1.0.tar.xz 3 tar xf gcc-10.1.0.tar.xz 4 cd gcc-10.1.0 5 contrib/download_prerequisites · At this point, we can configure the build. In order to keep the system clean, we will use /usr/local/gcc-10.1.0 for the installation folder and append the suffix -10.1 to the GCC compilers.

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r/bashonubuntuonwindows on Reddit: GCC doesn't install ?

August 28, 2020 -

I've only begun using Bash on Ubuntu and recently attempted to install gcc. When I try to run gcc I get informed I must install gcc. Although I did notice during the installation there were some errors ?

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As somebody else suggested make sure you run apt-get update first.

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I recently had to install gcc manually in WSL. I assume this is intentional. Just sudo apt install gcc and you're done.

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r/learnprogramming on Reddit: Help install g++ on Ubuntu wsl

November 20, 2022 -

I have attached the full error message below as well as the main error message separately.

sudo apt install g++

[sudo] password for bzard:

Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading state information... Done The following additional packages will be installed: cpp cpp-11 fontconfig-config fonts-dejavu-core g++-11 gcc gcc-11 gcc-11-base libasan6 libatomic1 libc-dev-bin libc-devtools libc6-dev libcc1-0 libcrypt-dev libdeflate0 libfontconfig1 libfreetype6 libgcc-11-dev libgd3 libgomp1 libisl23 libitm1 libjbig0 libjpeg-turbo8 libjpeg8 liblsan0 libmpc3 libnsl-dev libquadmath0 libstdc++-11-dev libtiff5 libtirpc-dev libtsan0 libubsan1 libwebp7 libxpm4 linux-libc-dev manpages-dev rpcsvc-proto Suggested packages: cpp-doc gcc-11-locales g++-multilib g++-11-multilib gcc-11-doc gcc-multilib make autoconf automake libtool flex bison gdb gcc-doc gcc-11-multilib glibc-doc libgd-tools libstdc++-11-doc The following NEW packages will be installed: cpp cpp-11 fontconfig-config fonts-dejavu-core g++ g++-11 gcc gcc-11 gcc-11-base libasan6 libatomic1 libc-dev-bin libc-devtools libc6-dev libcc1-0 libcrypt-dev libdeflate0 libfontconfig1 libfreetype6 libgcc-11-dev libgd3 libgomp1 libisl23 libitm1 libjbig0 libjpeg-turbo8 libjpeg8 liblsan0 libmpc3 libnsl-dev libquadmath0 libstdc++-11-dev libtiff5 libtirpc-dev libtsan0 libubsan1 libwebp7 libxpm4 linux-libc-dev manpages-dev rpcsvc-proto 0 upgraded, 41 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 183 kB/62.5 MB of archives. After this operation, 201 MB of additional disk space will be used.

Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y

Ign:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-updates/main amd64 libtiff5 amd64 4.3.0-6ubuntu0.1 Err:1 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-updates/main amd64 libtiff5 amd64 4.3.0-6ubuntu0.1 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.91.39 80] E: Failed to fetch http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/t/tiff/libtiff5_4.3.0-6ubuntu0.1_amd64.deb 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.91.39 80] E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with --fix-missing?

Error message only:

Ign:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-updates/main amd64 libtiff5 amd64 4.3.0-6ubuntu0.1 Err:1 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-updates/main amd64 libtiff5 amd64 4.3.0-6ubuntu0.1 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.91.39 80] E: Failed to fetch http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/t/tiff/libtiff5_4.3.0-6ubuntu0.1_amd64.deb 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.91.39 80] E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with --fix-missing?

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Did you run apt update first?

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Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with --fix-missing? Try that, error messages are usually helpful