I can't seem to build pine on ubuntu the saga: now it's cc errors??

[Tobias Heinemann]

 > Which is how I leaned that I needed to do an "apt-get install make"
 > first.

Make sure you do

   apt-get install build-essential

before your next attempt of building skype. As the name suggests, this
package depends on essential tools (make, gcc, ...) for building from
source.

 > then on my next build attempt I got a warning about not having
 > openssl... "apt-get" again... But I got the build warning again.

You probably need to "apt-get install libssl-dev". In most cases, when
you get errors about missing libraries during the ./configure stage, you
need to install the corresponding *-dev package. If ./configure
complains about a missing library foobar, this is usually called
foobar-dev, but there are exceptions (as in the case of openssl for
instance).

Regards,
Tobi