Installing Tarballs

[David McCormick]

Ouattara Oumar Aziz wrote:
> David McCormick a écrit :
>   
>> I have tried to install several tarballs and keep getting the error 
>> message that gcc compiler is not installed. I have both Gnome and KDE 
>> compilers installed. I am new to Ubuntu but have used Red Hat and Fedora 
>> Core for years. is there something different in Ubuntu in the way you 
>> install software?
>>
>>
>> David
>>
>>     
> install build-essential.
>
> wattazoum
>
>
>   
I have already done that.

David