Installing Tarballs

I have tried to install several tarballs and keep getting
the error 
message that gcc compiler is not installed. I have both
Gnome and KDE 
compilers installed. I am new to Ubuntu but have used Red
Hat and Fedora 
Core for years. is there something different in Ubuntu in
the way you 
install software?


David

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David McCormick a écrit :
> I have tried to install several tarballs and keep
getting the error 
> message that gcc compiler is not installed. I have both
Gnome and KDE 
> compilers installed. I am new to Ubuntu but have used
Red Hat and Fedora 
> Core for years. is there something different in Ubuntu
in the way you 
> install software?
> 
> 
> David
> 
install build-essential.

wattazoum


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Ouattara Oumar Aziz wrote:
> David McCormick a écrit :
>   
>> I have tried to install several tarballs and keep
getting the error 
>> message that gcc compiler is not installed. I have
both Gnome and KDE 
>> compilers installed. I am new to Ubuntu but have
used Red Hat and Fedora 
>> Core for years. is there something different in
Ubuntu in the way you 
>> install software?
>>
>>
>> David
>>
>>     
> install build-essential.
>
> wattazoum
>
>
>   
I have already done that.

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On Sat, Sep 09, 2006 at 09:01:41AM -0400, David McCormick
wrote:
> I have tried to install several tarballs
OK; which tarballs, and why are you not using the package
repositories?

>  and keep getting the error message that gcc compiler
is not
>  installed. 
What do the commands:
gcc --version
and:
dpkg -l build-essential
give you as output?

> I have both Gnome and KDE compilers installed.
Neither of those are compilers.

> I am new to Ubuntu but have used Red Hat and Fedora
Core for years. is
> there something different in Ubuntu in the way you
install software?
>
Yes and no. For the most part all of those systems prefer
software to be
installed via the package manager rather than from source.
Ubuntu uses a
different package manager from RH/Fedora, but the concepts
are mostly
the same. Building from source, however, works in virtually
the same way
on any normal Linux system.

Some more specificity about what you're trying to build,
why, and
exactly what errors you are getting after executing
precisely which
commands would be useful.

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I too seem to be having trouble installing things from
source.  Here is
the message I get when I "./configure":

checking if autoconf needs to be run... no
checking if autoheader needs to be run... no
checking for /usr/pkg/include include directory... no
checking for /usr/pkg/lib library directory... no
checking for /usr/pkg/bin command directory... no
checking for /sw/include include directory... no
checking for /sw/lib library directory... no
checking for /sw/bin command directory... no
checking for /opt/include include directory... no
checking for /opt/lib library directory... no
checking for /opt/bin command directory... no
checking for /opt/local/include include directory... no
checking for /opt/local/lib library directory... no
checking for /opt/local/bin command directory... no
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name...
configure: error: C
compiler cannot create executables
See `config.log' for more details.

Here is what dpkg -l build-essential shows:
No packages found matching build-essential.

and gcc --version:

This is free software; see the source for copying
conditions.  There is
NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
PARTICULAR
PURPOSE.
 
On Sat, 2006-09-09 at 14:51 +0100, Ewan Mac Mahon wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 09, 2006 at 09:01:41AM -0400, David
McCormick wrote:
> > I have tried to install several tarballs
> OK; which tarballs, and why are you not using the
package repositories?
> 
> >  and keep getting the error message that gcc
compiler is not
> >  installed. 
> What do the commands:
> gcc --version
> and:
> dpkg -l build-essential
> give you as output?
> 
> > I have both Gnome and KDE compilers installed.
> Neither of those are compilers.
> 
> > I am new to Ubuntu but have used Red Hat and
Fedora Core for years. is
> > there something different in Ubuntu in the way you
install software?
> >
> Yes and no. For the most part all of those systems
prefer software to be
> installed via the package manager rather than from
source. Ubuntu uses a
> different package manager from RH/Fedora, but the
concepts are mostly
> the same. Building from source, however, works in
virtually the same way
> on any normal Linux system.
> 
> Some more specificity about what you're trying to
build, why, and
> exactly what errors you are getting after executing
precisely which
> commands would be useful.
> 
> Ewan


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On Sat, Sep 09, 2006 at 10:28:09AM -0400, Taylor Peterson
wrote:
> I too seem to be having trouble installing things from
source.  Here is
> the message I get when I "./configure":
> 
It might be handy to know what is is you're actually trying
to build -
not all configure scripts are the same, so there's no way
to be specific
without knowing which this is.

<snip>
 
> Here is what dpkg -l build-essential shows:
> No packages found matching build-essential.
>
OK; that means that the build-essential meta package isn't
installed.
Build-essential isn't strictly necessary since there's
nothing in it,
however, it depends upon most of the things that you need to
compile
source, so if you install it (with adept/synaptic/apt-get
etc.) then
you're guaranteed to get most of what you need.
 
> and gcc --version:
> 
> This is free software; see the source for copying
conditions.  There is NO 
> warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
>
There should have been some more to that, including the
actual version
number. On my system (running Breezy) it says:

gcc (GCC) 4.0.2 20050808 (prerelease) (Ubuntu
4.0.1-4ubuntu9)
Copyright (C) 2005 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.

From here, try installing build-essential, and let us know
what you're
compiling, and we'll take it from there.

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Am Samstag, den 09.09.2006, 09:01 -0400 schrieb David
McCormick:
> I have tried to install several tarballs and keep
getting the error 
> message that gcc compiler is not installed. I have both
Gnome and KDE 
> compilers installed. I am new to Ubuntu but have used
Red Hat and Fedora 
> Core for years. is there something different in Ubuntu
in the way you 
> install software?
> 
> 
> David
> 

install libc6-dev or similar


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