Thursday, March 17, 2016

How to install C on ubuntu

Install C on Ubuntu.

Hi guys in this post I am gonna tell you how to install C compiler on Ubuntu.

Step 1: Update your OS.

sudo apt-get update

Step 2: In order to install C compiler we need to install build-essential package. This package consist tools to build packages for Ubuntu.

sudo apt-get install build-essential

Step 3: Check configurations to make sure that compiler is installed run the following commands.

gcc -v
make -v

Step 4: Testing installation by creating and compiling a simple program to print "Hello World!!".

mkdir ~/C && cd ~/C
touch hello.c && vim hello.c

To exit VIM editor type: press esc then write :wq hit enter

Step 5: Compile the program.

 cc hello.c -o hello
Above command will generate a file with name hello. You can see the files in the terminal with command 'ls'.


Step 6: Run the C program.

To run c program write: ./hello
OUTPUT: Hello World!!
UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity. ~Dennis Ritchie






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