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Dear all,

When I want to install packages such as gfortran by "sudo apt-get -y install gcc g++ gfortran"

I received this message:

Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
E: Couldn't find package gcc

It happened the same for other packages like patch and fftw3.

could you please tell me what is the problem?

Thank you

Hi dear,

Although your question has exactly zero relation with Abinit, my best answer is that the package gcc doesn't exist (anymore) for your distribution. Assuming that you have a Debian based distribution - as you're using apt - try to update the package database with a sudo apt-get update and then install the all-in-one no fuss package to compile (almost) everything with a sudo apt-get install build-essential.

Any improvement?

Alain

And if you want to install all requirements to build Abinit in one command, just type:

This will work provided that you're using the default package repositories, and not ones provided a third party (like your university). If you don't know what this is about, just ask to the administrator of the computer where you want to install the packages and/or consult the documentation of your Linux distribution.