I tried to run ./configure on a small program that the Linux book I'M reading instructed me to download and I got the error "no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH" I then tried to run atp-get install gcc, but then I got "unable to locate package gcc". Any dieas?
lewashby 56 Junior Poster
mike_2000_17 2,669 21st Century Viking Team Colleague Featured Poster
Try to install build-essential (at least, in Ubuntu repos, I don't know if other debian distros have it too), it will install everything you need.
$ sudo apt-get install build-essential
Also, if you get the message "unable to locate package ..", then you should try to do a search for it:
$ sudo aptitude search gcc
It should list all packages that contain that word (like grep). It's possible that the package is named something else, like gcc-4.7 or something like that.
lewashby 56 Junior Poster
Thanks. It worked but it took me a while. I had to run apt-get update first. I alwasy forget that after I've just installed a new server. Since we're on the subject, why do simple apt-get commands not work until upate has been run?
naphets 0 Junior Poster in Training
apt-get update , Updates the "local database" of what is available (in the Terabtytes) on the clouds...
sudo apt-get install build-essential libc6-dev libbz2-dev check
Ubuntu lacks the above by default
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