5.10 gcc nuttiness

[Clay Weber]

Daniel Axtell wrote:
> I decided to try Kubuntu 5.10 on my laptop, which is
> pretty Linux unfriendly.  The installation went pretty
> smoothly, but when went to build a library from
> source, I noticed there's no gcc.  So I sent into the
> package manager, picked gcc (which chose gcc 4.0.2),
> installed it, and when I did "./configure", I got this
> error:
> "error: C compiler cannot create executables".
> 
> I previosly tried Ubuntu 5.10 on this same machine,
> and after it had supposedly installed gcc, it was no
> where to be found.  Trying to install earlier versions
> (3.3, 3.4) were fruitless.  I'm pretty amazed that gcc
> won't work out of the box; what's the point of open
> source if you don't have a compiler?
> 
> Any suggestions before I try installing Gentoo on this machine?
> 
> 
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Try installing build-essential, it will add all the other items gcc will 
need
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