Eric D. Schabell: Ubuntu x86_64 C compiler cannot create executables

Wednesday, February 27, 2008

Ubuntu x86_64 C compiler cannot create executables

Today after an update I started to get this error when trying to compile software from source:

C compiler cannot create executables

A bit of searching and I seemed to need some extra packages, you can fix this with:
$ sudo aptitude install libc6-dev-i386

This resulted in the packages gcc-4.1-multilib gcc-multilib getting automatically installed. This was the fix for me.
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3 comments:

  1. Anonymous19 May, 2008 02:27

    OH wow. Perfect! I tried

    $ sudo apt-get install libc6-dev-i386

    but for some reason it didn't show up.
    Go aptitude!

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  2. Eric D. Schabell19 May, 2008 15:56

    If you can't find that version just look for the version you have:

    $ sudo aptitude search libc6

    That might help?

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  3. Anonymous11 March, 2013 23:32

    Helped a lot, thank you!

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