How to Check What Compilers Are Installed on CentOS/RHEL/Ubuntu Linux
This post will guide you how to check what compilers are install on your CentOS/RHEL/Ubuntu/Debian Linux system. How do I check if GNU GCC Compiler is installed on Linux. How do I list all available compilers that can be installed in Linux.
- Check What Compilers Are Installed
- Check C/C++ Compiler is Installed
- Check C/C++ Compiler Version
- Check which Fortran Compiler is installed
- Check All Available Compilers Can be Installed
- Install Compiler in Linux
- Video: Chekcing What Compilers are Installed on CentOS/RHEL/Ubuntu Linux
Check What Compilers Are Installed
Assuming that you have installed core development tools in your Linux system, and you want to check what compilers are installed, how to achieve the results in different Linux distribution system.
For Ubuntu/Debian Linux:
If you are using the Ubuntu/Debian Linux, you can use the dpkg command to check what compilers have been installed in your system. Issue the following command:
$ dpkg --list | grep compiler
Outputs:
devops@devops-osetc:~$ dpkg --list | grep compiler ii g++ 4:5.3.1-1ubuntu1 amd64 GNU C++ compiler ii g++-5 5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.4 amd64 GNU C++ compiler ii gcc 4:5.3.1-1ubuntu1 amd64 GNU C compiler ii gcc-5 5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.4 amd64 GNU C compiler ii hardening-includes 2.7ubuntu2 all Makefile for enabling compiler flags for security hardening ii libllvm3.8:amd64 1:3.8-2ubuntu4 amd64 Modular compiler and toolchain technologies, runtime library ii libxkbcommon0:amd64 0.5.0-1ubuntu2 amd64 library interface to the XKB compiler - shared library
For the above outputs, you can know that the GNU GCC compiler has been installed. and you can use it to compile C or C++ programs on your Linux system.
For CentOS/RHEL Linux:
If you are using the Centos/RHEL Linux, and you can use the “yum install installed” command to check what compilers are installed. Issue the following command:
# yum list installed | grep gcc
or
# yum list installed | grep java
or
# yum list installed | grep automake
Outputs:
[root@osetc_test working]# yum list installed | grep -i --color compiler [root@osetc_test working]# [root@osetc_test working]# yum list installed | grep gcc gcc.x86_64 4.4.7-23.el6 @base gcc-c++.x86_64 4.4.7-23.el6 @base gcc-gfortran.x86_64 4.4.7-23.el6 @base libgcc.x86_64 4.4.7-23.el6 @base [root@osetc_test working]# yum list installed | grep java [root@osetc_test working]# yum list installed | grep automake automake.noarch 1.11.1-4.el6 @base [root@osetc_test working]# yum list installed | grep perl perl.x86_64 4:5.10.1-144.el6 @base perl-Compress-Raw-Zlib.x86_64 1:2.021-144.el6 @base perl-Compress-Zlib.x86_64 2.021-144.el6 @base perl-DBD-MySQL.x86_64 4.013-3.el6 @base perl-DBI.x86_64 1.609-4.el6 @base perl-Error.noarch 1:0.17015-4.el6 @base perl-Git.noarch 1.7.1-9.el6_9 @base perl-HTML-Parser.x86_64 3.64-2.el6 @base perl-HTML-Tagset.noarch 3.20-4.el6 @base perl-IO-Compress-Base.x86_64 2.021-144.el6 @base perl-IO-Compress-Zlib.x86_64 2.021-144.el6 @base perl-Module-Pluggable.x86_64 1:3.90-144.el6 @base perl-Pod-Escapes.x86_64 1:1.04-144.el6 @base perl-Pod-Simple.x86_64 1:3.13-144.el6 @base perl-URI.noarch 1.40-2.el6 @base perl-XML-Parser.x86_64 2.36-7.el6 @base perl-libs.x86_64 4:5.10.1-144.el6 @base perl-libwww-perl.noarch 5.833-5.el6 @base perl-version.x86_64 3:0.77-144.el6 @base
Check C/C++ Compiler is Installed
If you want only check if C/C++ compiler is installed on Linux, you can run the following command:
$ type -a gcc
or
$ which gcc
Outputs:
[root@osetc_test working]# type -a gcc gcc is /usr/bin/gcc [root@osetc_test working]# which gcc /usr/bin/gcc
Check C/C++ Compilers Version
To check the version of GNU GCC C/C++ Compiler on your Linux system, you can issue the following command:
$ gcc --version
outpus:
[root@osetc_test working]# gcc --version gcc (GCC) 4.4.7 20120313 (Red Hat 4.4.7-23) Copyright (C) 2010 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.
Check which Fortran Compiler is installed
To check the version of installed fortran compiler on your Linux system, type the following command:
$ gfortran -v
outputs;
[root@osetc_test working]# gfortran -v Using built-in specs. Target: x86_64-redhat-linux Configured with: ../configure --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --with-bugurl=http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla --enable-bootstrap --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --enable-checking=release --with-system-zlib --enable-__cxa_atexit --disable-libunwind-exceptions --enable-gnu-unique-object --enable-languages=c,c++,objc,obj-c++,java,fortran,ada --enable-java-awt=gtk --disable-dssi --with-java-home=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-gcj-1.5.0.0/jre --enable-libgcj-multifile --enable-java-maintainer-mode --with-ecj-jar=/usr/share/java/eclipse-ecj.jar --disable-libjava-multilib --with-ppl --with-cloog --with-tune=generic --with-arch_32=i686 --build=x86_64-redhat-linux Thread model: posix gcc version 4.4.7 20120313 (Red Hat 4.4.7-23) (GCC)
Check All Available Compilers Can be Installed
If you want to check the list of available compilers can be installed in your system, you can execute the following command:
For CentOS/RHEL Linux:
Type:
$ yum search all compiler
Outputs:
[root@osetc_test working]# yum serach all compiler Loaded plugins: fastestmirror No such command: serach. Please use /usr/bin/yum --help [root@osetc_test working]# yum search all compiler Loaded plugins: fastestmirror Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile * base: mirror.fileplanet.com * epel: mirror.sjc02.svwh.net * extras: mirror.sfo12.us.leaseweb.net * updates: mirror.sfo12.us.leaseweb.net =========================================== Matched: compiler =========================================== ...... compat-gcc-34.x86_64 : Compatibility GNU Compiler Collection compat-gcc-34-c++.x86_64 : C++ support for compatibility compiler compat-gcc-34-g77.x86_64 : Fortran 77 support for compatibility compiler cross-gcc-common.noarch : Cross-build GNU C compiler documentation and translation files csclng.x86_64 : A compiler wrapper that runs Clang in background cscppc.x86_64 : A compiler wrapper that runs cppcheck in background csmatch.x86_64 : A compiler wrapper that runs smatch in background cswrap.x86_64 : Generic compiler wrapper dtc.x86_64 : Device Tree Compiler ecj.x86_64 : Eclipse Compiler for Java eclipse-photran-intel.noarch : Intel Fortran compiler support for Photran ......
For Ubuntu/Debian Linux:
Type:
$ apt-cache search Compiler | less
Outputs:
devops@devops-osetc:~$ apt-cache search Compiler | less antlr - language tool for constructing recognizers, compilers etc antlr-doc - language tool for constructing recognizers, compilers etc binutils - GNU assembler, linker and binary utilities binutils-multiarch - Binary utilities that support multi-arch targets ca-certificates-mono - Common CA certificates (Mono keystore) ccache - Compiler cache for fast recompilation of C/C++ code cmake - cross-platform, open-source make system cmake-doc - extended documentation in various formats for CMake cpp - GNU C preprocessor (cpp) cpp-5 - GNU C preprocessor cpp-5-aarch64-linux-gnu - GNU C preprocessor cpp-5-arm-linux-gnueabihf - GNU C preprocessor cpp-5-powerpc-linux-gnu - GNU C preprocessor cpp-5-powerpc64le-linux-gnu - GNU C preprocessor cpp-aarch64-linux-gnu - GNU C preprocessor (cpp) for the arm64 architecture cpp-arm-linux-gnueabihf - GNU C preprocessor (cpp) for the armhf architecture cpp-powerpc-linux-gnu - GNU C preprocessor (cpp) for the powerpc architecture cpp-powerpc64le-linux-gnu - GNU C preprocessor (cpp) for the ppc64el architecture device-tree-compiler - Device Tree Compiler for Flat Device Trees dpkg-dev - Debian package development tools ......
Install Compiler in Linux
To install compilers on your Linux system, you can use the yum command to install the specific compiler, such as: GNU GCC compiler, you can run the following command:
$ sudo yum install gcc
or
$ sudo yum groupinstall "Development Tools"
If you are using the Ubuntu or Debian Linux, you can use the following command to install GNU GCC compiler:
$ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install build-essential
Video: Checking What Compilers are Installed on CentOS/RHEL/Ubuntu Linux
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