[ubuntu-in] compiling C in Hardy

Onkar Shinde onkarshinde at gmail.com
Thu May 22 13:01:54 BST 2008


On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 5:04 PM, AlgoMantra <algomantra at gmail.com> wrote:
> Just an advance warning, since I found this very strange for
> a linux system......you might be trying to compile C code
> using gcc but it may not work,
> with many errors saying "stdio.h: no such file...."etc
>
> that means you need to:
> $sudo apt-get install build-essentials.

This is nothing specific to hardy, you always need build-essential for
compiling c programs.
And build-essential is installed automatically in case of clean
install. If it is an upgrade you need to make sure ubuntu-desktop is
installed before upgrading.


Onkar



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