Install PostgreSQL 8.2.5

[Gunawan]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Moseley" <moseley at hank.org>
To: "Ubuntu user technical support,not for general discussions" 
<ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
Sent: Monday, October 29, 2007 9:13 AM
Subject: Re: Install PostgreSQL 8.2.5


> On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 07:37:11AM +0700, Gunawan wrote:
>> Hi All,
>> I am having problem while installing Postgre...
>
> Is there a reason you want to build from source?
>
>    $ sudo apt-get install postgresql-server-dev-8.2
>
>> I tried to run ./configure but got this error
>>
>> joe at joe-desktop:~/temp/postgresql-8.2.5$ ./configure
>> checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnulibc1
>> checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnulibc1
>> checking which template to use... linux
>> checking whether to build with 64-bit integer date/time support... no
>> checking whether NLS is wanted... no
>> checking for default port number... 5432
>> checking for gcc... gcc
>> checking for C compiler default output file name... configure: error: C
>> compiler cannot
>> create executables
>> See `config.log' for more details.
>
> what did config.log say?
>
>
> -- 
> Bill Moseley
> moseley at hank.org

> Is there a reason you want to build from source?

I know that using apt-get is the easiest way.
In learning linux I would like to try to build application from the source.
Though it would be rather difficult but I think nothing wrong with it. 
CMIIW.
Regards,
Gun