I am trying to install a program on K Ubuntu but I keep getting the error message
"configure: error : Standard C Math library -lm not found"

I have tried to use the Adept Manager to search for a standard C math library package but have not been able to locate the right on.
Infact I have installed different packages but none seems to suit the Standard C Math library.
Googling is not been of help.
Anyone who can recommend where i download a package with the Standard C math library, i will be grateful .

It's actually part of libc6 on Ubunut systems ... I find it hard to believe
it shouldn't be installed on yours. Try a
locate libm\.



Cheers,
Tink

Try running:

thanks for your replies.
I did a locate lib\m and the screen did "spit" alot of shit that i couldn`t understand. So what should i be looking for or how should i proceed when I do locate lib\m

I did sudo apt-get build-essential and got the error message
"E: Invalid operation build-essential"


Will appreciate any more ideas.

it's
sudo apt-get install build-essential


Cheers,
Tink

Sorry. My fault, yeah I missed install out. I'm kicking myself at this very moment.

brianl, you need not kick yourself, Tinkster your friend was around to help. Thanks for your help.
But here is my situation. seems my source list is not uptodate as most connections do fail. Where can I get an updated sources list?

see below




banjika@s501022:~$ sudo apt-get install build-essential
[sudo] password for banjika:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
graphicsmagick cpp-2.95 slib scm
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following extra packages will be installed:
dpkg-dev g++ g++-4.1 libstdc++6-4.1-dev patch
Suggested packages:
debian-keyring g++-multilib g++-4.1-multilib gcc-4.1-doc libstdc++6-4.1-doc
diff-doc
The following NEW packages will be installed:
build-essential dpkg-dev g++ g++-4.1 libstdc++6-4.1-dev patch
0 upgraded, 6 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
Need to get 3995kB of archives.
After unpacking 14.6MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Err http://nz.archive.ubuntu.com gutsy/main libstdc++6-4.1-dev 4.1.2-16ubuntu2
Could not connect to nz.archive.ubuntu.com:80 (202.7.6.10), connection timed o
ut
Err http://nz.archive.ubuntu.com gutsy/main g++-4.1 4.1.2-16ubuntu2
Connection failed
Err http://nz.archive.ubuntu.com gutsy/main g++ 4:4.1.2-9ubuntu2
Connection failed
Err http://nz.archive.ubuntu.com gutsy/main patch 2.5.9-4
Could not connect to nz.archive.ubuntu.com:80 (202.7.6.10), connection timed o ut
Err http://nz.archive.ubuntu.com gutsy/main dpkg-dev 1.14.5ubuntu16
Connection failed
Err http://nz.archive.ubuntu.com gutsy/main build-essential 11.3ubuntu1
Connection failed
Failed to fetch http://nz.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/...c-4.1/libstdc+ +6-4.1-dev_4.1.2-16ubuntu2_i386.deb Could not connect to nz.archive.ubuntu.com: 80 (202.7.6.10), connection timed out
Failed to fetch http://nz.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/...c-4.1/g++-4.1_ 4.1.2-16ubuntu2_i386.deb Connection failed
Failed to fetch http://nz.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/...c-defaults/g++ _4.1.2-9ubuntu2_i386.deb Connection failed
Failed to fetch http://nz.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/...atch/patch_2.5. 9-4_i386.deb Could not connect to nz.archive.ubuntu.com:80 (202.7.6.10), connec tion timed out
Failed to fetch http://nz.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/...pkg/dpkg-dev_1. 14.5ubuntu16_all.deb Connection failed
Failed to fetch http://nz.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/...ild-essential/ build-essential_11.3ubuntu1_i386.deb Connection failed
E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with --fix-missing?
banjika@s501022:~$

Heh. Where did the initial list come from? It's a tad surprising that
you should use NZ mirrors from Germany. But even so - the mirrors in
NZ are up, not sure whether they'll disallow intl' traffic.

You could try to just edit you sources.list and replace the occurrences
of /nz. with /de. ... then run apt-get update.


Cheers,
Tink

Tinkster,

things seem not to be getting better
Here is what I have

banjika@s501022:~$ sudo apt-get install build-essential
[sudo] password for banjika:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package build-essential is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
E: Package build-essential has no installation candidate
banjika@s501022:~$ sudo apt-get install build-essential
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package build-essential is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
E: Package build-essential has no installation candidate

If you have another sources.list which I can us, I will gladly appreciate it.

Tinkster, brianL
Need not worry, after changing occurences of "//nz." to //de." i did
sudo apt-get update and then
sudo apt-get install build-essential

Everything went on well and I no longer get the original erro message.

Appreciate your help.

Glad you got it sorted out.