Need urgent help with m5 simulator for ubuntu12.04?

[Nils Kassube]

Navdeep Singh Sidhu wrote:
> I was helping my friend installing gem5 simulator on Linux for her
> thesis work. i know linux a little bit. Somehow i managed to install
> that simulator on my laptop with ubuntu 12.04, but when i tried to
> install that simulator on her laptop that didn't went well. i gave
> the same commands on her laptop but it gave this error.
> 
>         $ scons build/ALPHA/gem5.opt
>          scons: Reading SConscript files ...
>          Error Don't know what compiler options to use for your
> compiler. compiler: None
>          version: COMMAND NOT FOUND!

Could it be that there is no compiler installed? If that is the case, 
try the command

sudo apt-get install build-essential

and then try your build command again.


Nils