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Please make sure build-essential is installed:<br />

<pre><code id="code-20-39603088-1">sudo apt-get install build-essential</code></pre>
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Please make sure build-essential is installed:


sudo apt-get install build-essential

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You were correct. It appears as though Debian 5 is officially &quot;dead&quot;, and my installation was attempting to contact an ftp server no longer in use. I upgraded Debian and it works fine now.
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You were correct. It appears as though Debian 5 is officially "dead", and my installation was attempting to contact an ftp server no longer in use. I upgraded Debian and it works fine now.

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I did:<br />
sudo apt-get install build-essential<br />
<br />
Then I did:<br />
whereis gcc make<br />
<br />
The output was: /usr/lib/gcc<br />
<br />
I then did<br />
cd /usr/lib/gcc<br />
<br />
..and tried:<br />
gcc -lX11 prog.c -o prog ./prog.c<br />
<br />
And the output was;<br />
Bash: gcc command not found<br />
<br />
Please help. I just want to get to the point that I can compile c code (for X).<br />
<br />
Thanks,<br />
Amy
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I did:
sudo apt-get install build-essential

Then I did:
whereis gcc make

The output was: /usr/lib/gcc

I then did
cd /usr/lib/gcc

..and tried:
gcc -lX11 prog.c -o prog ./prog.c

And the output was;
Bash: gcc command not found

Please help. I just want to get to the point that I can compile c code (for X).

Thanks,
Amy

How to get GCC on Debian

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