GDB not available after "make install" unless a new terminal is opened

Asked Jan 23 '18 at 21:45

Active Jan 23 '18 at 21:45

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I'm fairly new to Ubuntu and development on Linux in general. After building GDB from source (pre-installed the dependencies):

$ git clone git://sourceware.org/git/binutils-gdb.git
$ CD binutils-gdb
$ ./Configure
$ Make
$ Make Install

I tried:

$ gdb

and got the following:

bash: /usr/bin/gdb: No such file or directory

Opened up a new terminal, tried running GDB again, and got the expected output of:

GNU gdb (GDB) 8.1.50.20180123-git...

Wondering why it only worked after opening a new terminal.

asked Jan 23 '18 at 21:45

Aaron M.

It's going to be hard to say for sure - possibly the shell had cached the previous location (see for example Pytest is in PATH but not found) – steeldriver Jan 23 '18 at 23:36
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You do strange things, GDB is packaged. – N0rbert Jan 24 '18 at 08:43

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