make & cc or gcc

[Peter Garrett]

On Tue, 11 Apr 2006 12:43:02 -0700
"Byron Poland" <wpoland at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 4/11/06, Attila Horvath <mutsuura at mutsuura.com> wrote:
> > I just installed the desktop version of ubuntu.
> >
> > Doesn't UBUNTU come with 'gcc', 'cc' or 'make' for bash shells?
> >
> > Thx Attila
> 
> 
> Install the "build-essentials" meta-package in synaptic, or with apt-get

Actually it is  " build-essential " ( singular)

This crops up a lot, and isn't necessarily such a problem if you are using
synaptic to search for the package, but 

sudo aptitude install build-essentials
 (or apt-get install of course )

will spit out an error
E: Couldn't find package build-essentials

Peter
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