Linuxbrew-core: Can't install gcc on WSL for Ubuntu

[stevesuh]

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• What you were trying to do (and why)
  Trying to install gcc
• What happened (include command output)

gkrishna@S03448-7480:~$ brew install --verbose --debug gcc
Updating Homebrew...
/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/brew.rb (Formulary::FormulaLoader): loading /home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Homebrew/Library/Taps/homebrew/homebrew-core/Formula/gcc.rb
/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/brew.rb (Formulary::FormulaLoader): loading /home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Homebrew/Library/Taps/homebrew/homebrew-core/Formula/glibc.rb
/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/brew.rb (Formulary::FormulaLoader): loading /home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Homebrew/Library/Taps/homebrew/homebrew-core/Formula/zlib.rb
/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/brew.rb (Formulary::FormulaLoader): loading /home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Homebrew/Library/Taps/homebrew/homebrew-core/Formula/gmp.rb
/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/brew.rb (Formulary::FormulaLoader): loading /home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Homebrew/Library/Taps/homebrew/homebrew-core/Formula/m4.rb
/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/brew.rb (Formulary::FormulaLoader): loading /home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Homebrew/Library/Taps/homebrew/homebrew-core/Formula/libmpc.rb
/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/brew.rb (Formulary::FormulaLoader): loading /home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Homebrew/Library/Taps/homebrew/homebrew-core/Formula/mpfr.rb
/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/brew.rb (Formulary::FormulaLoader): loading /home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Homebrew/Library/Taps/homebrew/homebrew-core/Formula/[email protected]
/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/brew.rb (Formulary::FormulaLoader): loading /home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Homebrew/Library/Taps/homebrew/homebrew-core/Formula/patchelf.rb
==> Installing dependencies for gcc: patchelf, zlib, gmp, mpfr, libmpc and [email protected]
==> Installing gcc dependency: patchelf
==> Downloading https://linuxbrew.bintray.com/bottles/patchelf-0.10.x86_64_linux.bottle.tar.gz
/usr/bin/curl -q --show-error --user-agent Linuxbrew/2.1.4\ \(Linux\;\ x86_64\ Ubuntu\ 18.04.2\ LTS\)\ curl/7.58.0 --location --silent --head --request GET https://linuxbrew.bintray.com/bottles/patchelf-0.10.x86_64_linux.bottle.tar.gz
Already downloaded: /home/gkrishna/.cache/Homebrew/downloads/405227c46362964d2bc2e9ff6428fe082dff4dbd3a4b0b29453743f71923304b--patchelf-0.10.x86_64_linux.bottle.tar.gz
==> Verifying 405227c46362964d2bc2e9ff6428fe082dff4dbd3a4b0b29453743f71923304b--patchelf-0.10.x86_64_linux.bottle.tar.gz checksum
==> Pouring patchelf-0.10.x86_64_linux.bottle.tar.gz
tar xof /home/gkrishna/.cache/Homebrew/downloads/405227c46362964d2bc2e9ff6428fe082dff4dbd3a4b0b29453743f71923304b--patchelf-0.10.x86_64_linux.bottle.tar.gz -C /tmp/d20190610-2898-1iw4mdf
cp -pR /tmp/d20190610-2898-1iw4mdf/patchelf/. /home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Cellar/patchelf
chmod -Rf +w /tmp/d20190610-2898-1iw4mdf
Error: patchelf must be installed: brew install patchelf
Warning: Bottle installation failed: building from source.
Error: The following formula
  patchelf
cannot be installed as binary package and must be built from source.
Install Clang or run `brew install gcc`.
/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/formula_installer.rb:309:in `rescue in install'
/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/formula_installer.rb:287:in `install'
/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/formula_installer.rb:599:in `install_dependency'
/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/formula_installer.rb:553:in `block in install_dependencies'
/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/formula_installer.rb:553:in `each'
/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/formula_installer.rb:553:in `install_dependencies'
/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/formula_installer.rb:259:in `install'
/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/cmd/install.rb:332:in `install_formula'
/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/cmd/install.rb:264:in `block in install'
/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/cmd/install.rb:262:in `each'
/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/cmd/install.rb:262:in `install'
/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/brew.rb:102:in `<main>'
gkrishna@S03448-7480:~$ brew doctor
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with debugging if you file an issue. If everything you use Homebrew for is
working fine: please don't worry or file an issue; just ignore this. Thanks!

Warning: No developer tools installed.
Install Clang or run `brew install gcc`.
gkrishna@S03448-7480:~$ brew config
HOMEBREW_VERSION: 2.1.4
ORIGIN: https://github.com/Homebrew/brew
HEAD: d5a90f6f4af0a8e3d0ff1d806fb65e1b3bdbbe42
Last commit: 2 weeks ago
Core tap ORIGIN: https://github.com/Homebrew/linuxbrew-core
Core tap HEAD: f47fabd3e37b4c4d603da282810d1380a6116928
Core tap last commit: 52 minutes ago
HOMEBREW_PREFIX: /home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew
HOMEBREW_CACHE: /home/gkrishna/.cache/Homebrew
HOMEBREW_LOGS: /home/gkrishna/.cache/Homebrew/Logs
CPU: octa-core 64-bit skylake
Homebrew Ruby: 2.3.7 => /home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/vendor/portable-ruby/2.3.7/bin/ruby
Clang: N/A
Git: 2.17.1 => /usr/bin/git
Curl: 7.58.0 => /usr/bin/curl
Kernel: Linux 4.4.0-17763-Microsoft x86_64 GNU/Linux
OS: Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS (bionic)
Host glibc: 2.27
/usr/bin/gcc: N/A
glibc: N/A
gcc: N/A
xorg: N/A

• What you expected to happen
  Install gcc
• Step-by-step reproduction instructions (by running brew install commands)
  brew install gcc

[issyl0]

Hi, @stevesuh. Thanks for reporting this.

This is a bit of a strange one as to install GCC you need to install its dependencies, and one of them - patchelf - needs to build from source (which it can't do without GCC installed).

I can reproduce this on a brand new WSL install, before I install any of Homebrew's dependencies (done via sudo apt-get install build-essential). If you run sudo apt-get install build-essential (if you have enough permissions to do so), does brew install gcc then complete?

[stevesuh]

Yes we ran that first. I even just ran apt-get update and just tried brew install hello. It's still complaining about patchelf.

[stevesuh]

I"m gonna attempt to uninstall Ubuntu WSL and try an older version of the WSL.

[sjackman]

You should only see this error message if you do not have /usr/bin/readelf installed. readelf is provided by the package binutils, which is a dependency of build-essential. So you should not see this error message if you have build-essential installed. Please report the output of…

which -a patchelf readelf
ls -l /usr/bin/readelf

[stevesuh]

Unfortunately we already uninstalled the WSL. We will see if it happens again.

[sjackman]

Feel free to comment if you have further questions.

[EshChn]

I am facing the same issue today. I m also trying to install GCC using the command.

brew install gcc

So I am following @sjackman instruction for troubleshooting and when I run

which -a patchelf readelf

I get nothing. And when I run

ls -l /usr/bin/readelf

I get this..

ls: cannot access '/usr/bin/readelf': No such file or directory

Btw, per the suggestion above from @issyl0 , I have done also.

sudo apt-get install build-essential

Dont know what else to try. Please help.

[sjackman]

sudo apt-get install build-essential should install readelf. Please report the output of that command and also sudo apt-get install binutils. Try also sudo apt-get install file.

[EshChn]

Thanks @sjackman for response. Surprised that brew install gccworked after doing sudo apt-get install build-essential, sudo apt-get install binutils and sudo apt-get install file. The other day I did sudo apt-get install build-essential but couldnt install/find readelf. I chased this rabbit hole while trying to get brew install node. Anyhow it worked and thanks for your sincere response.

One another observation. I keep seeing this warning (i suppose) nice: cannot set niceness: permission denied all through out the process and it was quite annoying. I saw somewhere to ignore this as its an windows upstream known issue. But just wanted to report here.

[sjackman]

Glad to hear that you got it working! Thanks for following up.

nice: cannot set niceness: permission denied

Here's the upstream issue: https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/1838 They reported it as being fixed, and others reported that they're still seeing this error.

[jonchang]

I haven't seen it since updating to build 1903, personally.

[sjackman]

@EshChn What Windows build are you running?

[EshChn]

Windows 10

[sjackman]

I suspect this bug is only fixed in development releases of Windows.

[shodhak]

I was facing the same issue but the solution suggested by @sjackman worked for me.

[otaviopires]

had the same issue today, @sjackman solution worked form me as well.

[sjackman]

Which fix did you use, exactly? sudo apt-get install build-essential ?

[otaviopires]

sudo apt-get install build-essential + sudo apt-get install binutils

[sjackman]

Did build-essential not include binutils? I thought that it should.

[benriga]

I ran into this today also. sudo apt-get install build-essential was all I needed. After that brew install hello worked fine for me. Thanks!

[aymLL]

Hello, I am running into the same problem. I tried sudo apt-get install build-essential and I get Not Found [IP: 91.189.88.31 80] E: Failed to fetch http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/g/gcc-7/gcc-7_7.4.0-1ubuntu1~18.04_amd64.deb 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.88.31 80]

[iMichka]

sudo apt-get install build-essential

This is a debian/ubuntu command. This has nothing to do with homebrew, so we can't help with that.

[dawidd6]

@aymLL run sudo apt update btw.

[darkmakukudo]

@dawidd6 @aymLL yes sudo apt update fixed the fetching error. Thanks!