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Originally posted by moborichard
Might be bad English, but I'm 0 for 7 or so on installing new software. I find a tar.gz file, download it, extract it and then go into terminal. I ./configure and it usually says the the appropriate compiler is not present, so no makefile results. I've gone to other sites to find gcc (I think that's the compiler that it's looking for). I've installed this once or twice and it may configure (but usually with some errors) or it configures and then the make command leads to more errors. Too many or too confusing to me to reproduce here.
Am I missing something? Why wouldn't the compiler
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Just to check, but you might want to make sure the software you're trying to install via tar is not already available in your repositories. Not saying that it is, as I've no idea what it is you're trying to install, but I have seen alot, and I mean A LOT of people trying to install software the hard way as they were not familiar with apt-get or synaptic. There are most assuredly software packages that are not easily available that way, but I have found them to be few, far between and in general pretty specialized apps, while there are thousands of very popular packages just waiting to be simply installed in the repositories. I get this idea as it sounds like you are actually trying to install gcc from a tar you got from a website, while it only takes a couple of mouse clicks in Synaptic to get it, and any dependancies required, install and configure them all automatically.
