Installing a compiler by default

[Peter Garrett]

On Fri, 16 Jun 2006 10:45:23 -0500
"Christofer C. Bell" <christofer.c.bell at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 6/16/06, Brent Larsen <brentoboy at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Either 20MB is too much, or it isnt.  I personally would remove open
> > office in favor of abiword and gnumeric, and remove evolution and gaim
> > before I would leave out a compiler.  Installing those applications from
> > the "add remove programs" area is really really easy.  adding a
> > compiler... not so easy.
> 
> $ sudo apt-get install build-essentials
> Password:
> 
> "... is really really easy."

Except that it produces:

$ sudo apt-get install build-essentials
Password:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
E: Couldn't find package build-essentials

This happens all the time :) The package is "build-essential" ( singular),
of course. 

just one of the reasons for renaming this package...

Peter