Can't compile

[Conor Schaefer]

I think a lot of people fail to realize the remarkable amount of
resources poured into the average binary install file... for instance,
ever use subversion to compile something from source? You would be
astounded at the amount of space you need to allot, just to create a
several megabyte large install file.

Programming is a beautiful, beautiful thing.

Michael wrote:
> Michael wrote:
>> Conor Schaefer wrote:
>>> That's a message I haven't seen before, but somehow whenever I do a
>>> fresh installation of a system I always forget the "build-essential"
>>> package. Do you at least have that?
>>>
>>> Michael wrote:
>>>   
>>>> I get:
>>>>
>>>> configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables
>>>> See `config.log' for more details.
>>>>
>>>> What am I missing?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>   
>>>>     
>>>
>>>   
>> Build essential was indeed missing.  That helped, now I am getting a
>> list of depends that were not met.
>>
>> checking for MUSICAPPLET_DEPS... configure: error: Package requirements (
>>         gtk+-2.0
>>         libpanelapplet-2.0
>>         pango >= 1.6
>>         pygtk-2.0
>>         gnome-python-2.0
>> ) were not met:
>>
>> No package 'libpanelapplet-2.0' found
>> No package 'gnome-python-2.0' found
>>
>>
>> I am now using package manager to try to locate whats missing.
>>
>>
> Many thanks for the support.  I have succeeded in installing an app
> that probably consists of less than 200 lines of code.  All I had to
> do was install over 100 megabytes of files to make it work.  Whats
> wrong with this picture?
>
> I was just trying to update music applet to version 2.3.  It is now in
> and running and I suppose I will need all the other stuff I installed
> someday.  After a while linux will be as bloated as windows at this rate.
>
> anyway, thanks again this has always been a good group.
>
>
> Mike