Hi,
Everytime when i use ./configure for my install it says no C compiler is installed ,so i've downloaded Gcc-4.4.2 and extracted it and again i found that it needs C compiler to .is there any way for me to install the Gcc in my machine.i'll paste some output in my terminal
Hope this will make some extra information for you guys

You need a C-compiler to compile the compiler.

Use the package manager of your distro (RH or derivate I assume) to install one. It's the easiest.

You mean RPM , i tried that too lot of dependencies needed it's too hard for me , i used yum also but no use

What exactly is your distribution? Is it Redhat, or something else?

If yum finds lots of dependencies, it usually means those are missing, or you need new versions of those packages. So again it is far easier to install those dependencies with yum. There are graphical alternatives that might make the whole process easier. E.g. Synaptic or Yumex. Which one is available on your system depends on exactly which distribution you have.

Mons

Have you tried just running "sudo yum install gcc"?

John G

I'm running my system as root ,so their is no need for sudo i think ,but i tried it .still it says No argument find and i'm using rpmforge as my repos

Try running the following command and see if they error

gcc -dumpversion
or
gcc --version

If gcc is correctly installed those two commands should work in any directory, you can also just try 'gcc' and seeing if it complains about no input file or not.

Also RPMforge won't have gcc to my knowledge, there is no need for it, the distributions official repositories should be hosting gcc. So the question of what distribution is rather important here.

As i stated Early gcc command is not recognized in my shell

What distribution are you using? RPMforge won't have gcc on it's yum reposistories?

If your using RHEL you maybe out of luck as this sounds like one of the things Red Hat do with RHEL to make people have to pay for their support licenses... and those aren't cheap. At best your only chance might be that gcc is installed but just does not appear in any of the directories that are in $PATH...

In which case running locate gcc can find it.

Have you just installed Linux? Try running "yum update" (I think that's how you update yum!) and then "yum install gcc" again.

If you get error messages, please cut & paste the output - most of the time it's much more helpful than a description of what went wrong!

John G

I did it and i found this
any improvements ,by the way i'm using RHEL5

No compiler installed, only some libraries. As said, use the package management (no RH user, so can't help further).

You are either going to have to pay for a RHEL license or switch to another distribution. The official RHEL repositories are only usable if you are paying for a support license from RHEL, if your lucky you might be able to find an unofficial repository but I wouldn't trust it.

If you don't want to pay the $80 per year charge for a RHEL the basic RHEL desktop or $349 per year charge for the basic level RHEL server I'd advise switching to CentOS, it's a near clone of RHEL and completely free.

If you do decide to pay the command you need to run is "yum install gcc" and accept anything it wants to download.

I agree.

Whats you purpose for this machine? Home desktop? Server? Developing anything specific?
If you want to stay close to RHEL, go for Centos. If its more a home/hobby thing have look at any of the distros in the top 5-10 available from the "main menu" ->"download linux" here on LQ.

Continuing with RHEL without access to their repository is going to be far too much trouble.

Mons