Could Not find very basic packages using APT...

[Michael V. De Palatis]

On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 07:18:42AM +0500, Fawad Nazir wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I am new to Ubuntu. I just installed Ubuntu-5.10-install-i386. I found
> out that this is very basic distribution and does not have gcc, make,
> glibc, ftpd type of packages in it.

The easiest thing to do is just apt-get install build-essential. The
build-essential package is a meta package that depends on all the
above packages that are required to do most standard building. If you
need other particular libraries for building, you need the <library
name>-dev package for those as well.

Basically, Ubuntu comes with lots of things that are useful for the
everyday desktop user, who may or may not need to build things from
source. If the user requires it, it's exceedingly easy to get
everything necessary to build (just the build-essential package).

Mike

> 
> I tried to use apt to get some of these packges. I added apt sources
> from Australia and Unites States using apt-setup in apt source list
> file.
> Then i used apt-get install command to install the above mentioned
> packages. I was only able to install gcc and make. For ftp i tried a
> lot of ftp servers from http://packages.ubuntu.com, atlast was able to
> install vsftpd and many of the ftp servers listed in pacakges were not
> available. Similarly, i am still not able to install glibc.
> 
> Please tell me some good apt sites to list in my apt sourcelist, from
> which i will be able to install most of the basic softwares.
> 
> I will be thankful.
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> Fawad Nazir
> 
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