compiling tarballs - please help a poor wee newbie

[medicben]

Could somebody please help me. I've recently started using linux, and I've being trying to download stuff from tucows and similar places. I'm using Debian I think, and I download .tar.gz files. They're no problem to expand, but when I follow the intstructions to complie them, it fails, saying something like "no acceptable cc found in $PATH file". Has anyone had this same problem?, or does anyone know what to do?

[jcannonb]

Sounds like you are either logged in as someone who is not root and does not have cc in the path, or when you installed your version of linux, you did not install the development tools. cc is the C Language compiler that one uses to make a program

[posterboy]

Well, sort of, maybe. The complaint is that he cannot find a C Compiler. The sort of standard compiler in this world is gcc. It's got to be there, and in root's path. Maybe it never got installed? A common location for it is /usr/bin/gcc. Roots path can be examined like this echo $PATH (case sensitive). To hunt down gcc try whereis gcc or which gcc. Some debian guru's will be along that can help more than I can, I am sure. Ray


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