first things first:
I used to work with windows for about 10 years now (95,98,y2k,me,xp) and I really got the hang of it now, let's say I'm quite good in solving problems in windows, and windows related stuff, I wrote programs in visual basic that were pretty good. But after these ten years, It got boring, there were almost no surprises anymore, nothing new... So I decided to check what that Linux OS was and after a little searching i came on suse, allright, let's install, and now I'm here suse 9.1 personal running well... on the outside, but the problems are rising... and that's why I need your help, but please note: I know a lot in windows, but almost nothing in Linux, and I really mean nothing... So please be patient

also, I live in belgium and I'm not used to speak / write English, but I do my best to be as understandable as possible. thx for your patience again

here are my problems:
I can't install programs, I achieved to install 1 program, and that was openoffice.org.
I think it has something to do with the GCC libraries, but if I install them with yast, nothing changes.
when I try to install a program (or I guess I'm compiling the source when I use ./configure ?) I get this error:

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kristof@linux:~/downloads/foobillard-3.0a> ./configure
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... no
checking for gcc... no
checking for cc... no
checking for cc... no
checking for cl... no
configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH
See `config.log' for more details.
kristof@linux:~/downloads/foobillard-3.0a>
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I also can't change my screen resolution to 1280*1024, although my screen and graphics cart supports it :s

Installing the graphics card is a problem also, please help me.

thx in advance

specs:
Acer Aspire 1711 SMi:
P4 2.8 Ghz
GeForce FX Go5700 64MB
winxp & suse 9.1 Personal dual boot

How much experience do you have with the "C" compiler ? I also believe one of your problems is with the personal edition versus the professional edition of SuSE 9.1
Any problems dual booting with XP ?

About the graphics,

you can change this with Yast - Hardware - Graphic-card (or something like this)

It is possible that you first have to install Nvidia drivers if you have a Nvidia card.

You can also use SAX2 [system - configuration - sax2]

You have to know data from your display and your card to modify everything.

Have a lot of fun

CloudBuilder

About GCC

If you install with yast - then if you try to install it again, you should see in the frame that it is installed.

Perhaps you do need another version.

Sometimes new sources need a newer version.

CloudBuilder

thx for the response

I can't install the nvidia drivers because that gives me the error described in the first post

and installing/updating with yast doesn't help, I also tried to change the server to get the updates from, but that doesn't solve the problem

Is there a way I can download the pro edition / install from an ftp-server? I'm only a poor student, you know

I had a few problems in the beginning but they were solved after re-installing Suse

About my first problem, is there any other way to install the "c" compiler?

thx in advance

thx, you helped me out, I configured an ftp server in my neighbourhood as installation source and I was able to download all C compilers, thx a lot