Mandrake 8.0, where's the compiler???

[Concrete Cormasta']

I have installed the development tools in Mandrake, and it said GCC or whatever compiler included, and I can't find it. Where the hell is it?? I'm getting very frustrated.

[bdl]

Bwa ha ha ha ha....oh sorry.

This has got to be one of the most asked questions in the linux universe, as Mandrake leaves gcc and other useful dev tools out of its basic install for some reason. You'll have to search on your MDK install CDROM for 'gcc' like so:

prompt$ find /cdrom -name '*gcc*'

This command assumes you have your MDK install CDROM mounted at /cdrom. You might also try searching the messageboard or google.com/linux (http://www.google.com/linux) for some additional info. Luck!

[TacKat]

A lot of important development things are left out of the standard development package. So when you find yourself lacking something, fire up rpmdrake and dig around in there.

[Malakin]

I always thought it was fairly obvious what it was installing with my instal options, I've always used the expert install though, don't know what the other ones are like.

If you've got lots of disk space you might just try reinstalling it and installing either everything or almost everything, it will likely take less of your time then digging around for things you're missing.

Just in case you do have it installed, "whereis gcc" will tell you where the executable is being run from. If you want more info on where gcc files are you can use the package manager or just go to CD 1 and type "d *gcc*" will list all the gcc relevant files, then you can type "rpm gcc-2.9.6*rpm -qpl" to see exactly where any particular rpm puts the files. Or "rpm gcc-2.9.6*rpm -qpl | less" to get it page by page.