Hello everybody,

I have been running for a few days on SuSE 9.1, and I have been very surprised to discover that there is no C or C++ compiler installed with the OS. So I have tried to install gcc-3.4.3; I was young and naive at that time, and I thought that I wouldn't need a C compiler to install a C compiler... But as you will have guessed, I do need one, at least for the tar.gz release.

I have read a few threads on this forum concerning installation from the rpm file; so I dowloaded the rpm file and decompressed it (rpm -i -vv gcc-3-3-3...). Then I typed ./configure and guess what ?

Eventually, my question is: how can it be possible to install a program without compiling it ?

Am I bound to loop forever on my quest of a C compiler?

Maybe if you download and install an rpm rather than
a src.rpm?


Cheers,
Tink

I guess you have SuSE 9.1 Personal, otherwise you would have found gcc on your installation medium.
See here how to install the original SuSE-rpm.

EDIT: Sorry, wasn't reading properly. But maybe this helps you anyway. Download the i586.rpm instead of src.rpm and it will be fine.

Many thanks to both of you for your very quick replies, I'm on it.

It worked! I downloaded the gcc-3.3.3-41.i586.rpm and glibdc-devel-2.3.3-98.i586.rpm files from one of the Suse ftp, decompressed them one after the other via rpm -i -vv <fileName> (the libdc first) and all went smooth!

You both have my eternal gratitude, really.

Most welcome ;)


Cheers,
Tink

Maybe I've got the same problem as Regis.
I am in a circular problem.

But I ain't got the rpm command nor the gcc.

The system is:
Linux name.of.the.server.net 2.4.21-53.ELsmp #1 SMP Wed Nov 14 03:54:12 EST 2007 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
It runs on a WEB page and cannot be changed.

Any suggestions?

Can I install the rpm from a rpm?

Thanks in advance.

ADB

It would help if you told us which distro you are using

Dear AceofSpades:
My system is on a WEB page server I cannot change.
I run it from a Client remote console. (PHPShell) it works wonderfull.

I thought it was enough with the information from the uname -a command.
Is there any way to know the "distro"?

Red Hat, don´t know the version.
Kernel release: 2.4.21-53.ELsmp
Kernel Version: #1 SMP Wed Nov 14 03:54:12 EST 2007 i686 i686 i386 Operative System: GNU/Linux

The only I have for sure is that I only 've got the binutils.

Thanks for your fast answer.
Regards

ADB

ADB

As I tried to tell you in your other thread, rpms (of this nature) are tied to the specific distro and version(not just the kernel version). Your version should be in:

Dear Lazlow:
I couldn't find the folder '/etc/redhat-release' nor the file 'redhat-release'.
May be they installed the system with the minimum to run PHP and MySQL,
because it is the service I purchased.

Regards

ADB

Contact the people you purchased the service from and ask them what distro, version, arch you have.

OK. Let's see if they answer.

Thank you.