build-essential linux-header-ARCH

On 28/09/06, umair ubuntu <umairubuntugmail.com> wrote:
> While installing intel modem 536ep on UBUNTU we first
install
> build-essential & linux-header-ARCH
> Did we also need to install these packages while
installing modem on KUBUNTU
> If yes how? because i have tried but faile

The build-essential package contains programs like make, ld
and other
friends if I recall correctly. Obviously, these programs are
required
if you want to compile and link anything. The linux-header
package
will most likely include all of the header files which
modules want to
include when they complied. As such, they too are required
if you are
compiling or linking software which hooks into the kernel.

Installing these two packages should be generic - the only
differrence
been the normal ubuntu and kubuntu is that one of them uses
KDE as the
desktop and the other uses Gnome. the kernel underneath them
is
identical.

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On 29/09/06, umair ubuntu <umairubuntugmail.com> wrote:
> Hi steve
> i have tried to search build-essential and linux-header
-ARCHin KUBUNTU
> packet manager (as how i install them in Ubuntu) but i
m unable to find
> them.

Hmm - I'd assume that they would be found in Kubuntu Package
Manager
(I don't use KDE and I don't have access to my machine at
the moment
to try it out) in the same repository as the Gnome Ubuntu
finds them.

> Actually while installing modem  when i type "make
clean" command it says
> command cant find

Yup - the error you is telling you it can't find the
"make" command as
it's in the build-essentials packages which it seems you
cant locate
in the repository, and don't have it installed.

> i m wondering whether it is due to absence of build
essential &linux header
> or something else.

You're correct in the first instance.

> remember the same command works in UBUNTU

Which concerns me - the programs in the build-essential
package are
required whether you're using Gnome, KDE, Fluxbox, fvwm or
any of the
other window managers (or like my laptop where it's console
only with
no window manager at all). It shouldn't matter which window
manager or
package manager you're using.

What does an 'sudo apt get build-essentials' tell you?

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On 29/09/06, umair ubuntu <umairubuntugmail.com> wrote:
> Hi steve
>  I have successfully install the build-essential &
linux headers in KUBUNTU
> by the following command
> First >> "sudo apt-cdrom add"
> it will prompt to insert cd

Ahh - I didn't realise you were using a CD/DVD to hold your
repositories - I'd (naively) assumed that you were pulling
the
packages from the net. My apologies for making such an
assumption.

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