Ubuntu gcc header files missing

[Chris Mohler]

On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 7:10 PM, whoosh <whoosh777 at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
> On 31-Jul-08 18:53:37 Brian McKee wrote:
>>On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 1:51 PM, Brian McKee <brian.mckee at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 1:41 PM, whoosh <whoosh777 at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
>>>> what is the best way to install `build-essential' ?
>>>
>>> short answer - aptitude install build essential
>>>
>>> long answer - anybody interesting in working with c probably might
>>> want to start learning how to use google and the 'man' command.
>
>>Oh for @*$&(*&*%%&^ sake - I'm an idiot
>
>>Let's try that again.
>
>>short answer - sudo aptitude install build-essential
>
>><off to slap my wrist with a wet noodle>
>
> and this will work on say Fedora 9 or is it just for Ubuntu?

Fedora uses yum instead of apt.

I don't have a Fedora box to look at the moment, but this should work (as root):
yum groupinstall "Development Tools"

if that doesn't work, try "yum grouplist" and looking for the dev
tools group.  I doubt that build-essential and "Development Tools" are
really  parallel, but that should pull down many of the same packages.
 I think this command pulls down the kernel sources and tons of devel
libraries:
yum groupinstall "Development Libraries"

The Fedora mailing list is quite helpful if you run into problems.

Chris