Tar help

[Guest_imported]

I am having a problem when using tar files. I believe I am successfully extracting the file in x-windows. It creates the directory with the files in side but when in the terminal window I go the directory, and then:

./configure
loading cache ./config.cache
checking for gcc...no
checking for cc...no
configure:error: no acceptable cc found in $PATH.

I get this same error no matter which tar file I use. Any help would be appreciated.

 

[mbaranski]

It's looking for a c compiler, which it can't find. The tar file is there ok, but gcc is not. Gcc is hte Gnu c compiler, which if you type "gcc -v" it should print the version. If you didn't install it when you installed linux, you need to go get it. What version of Linux do you have? Redhat has a development option, which installs gcc, but if you don't select it at install time, you don't have it. So, if you don't have it, get it, if you do have it, put the path to it in your env by:
export PATH=$PATH:/path/to/gcc
and then it should work.

MWB. As always, I hope that helped!

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[Guest_imported]

thanks mbaranski, I can see I was missing alot of the packages. I have Linux Mandrake 7.2 and just loaded the compiler. Tar files open like magic. Thanks again.