Installed Oracle Virtul Box, and then installed CentOS 5, have been mesing around with command and moving around the terminal. Planning on taking Linux+, just trying to get my feet wet. I'm also trying to play with Python Programming, but I'm unable to get it installed. I downloaded the tar file, and unzipped the thing, but when I try the ./configure it's giving me this,

[root@localhost Python-3.2]# ./configure
checking for --enable-universalsdk... no
checking for --with-universal-archs... 32-bit
checking MACHDEP... linux2
checking machine type as reported by uname -m... i686
checking for --without-gcc... no
checking for gcc... no
checking for cc... no
checking for cl.exe... no
configure: error: in `/home/Python/Python-3.2':
configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH
See `config.log' for more details
[root@localhost Python-3.2]# make
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.
[root@localhost Python-3.2]# make test
make: *** No rule to make target `test'. Stop.
[root@localhost Python-3.2]# sudo make install
make: *** No rule to make target `install'. Stop.
[root@localhost Python-3.2]# gcc
bash: gcc: command not found
[root@localhost Python-3.2]# pwd
/home/Python/Python-3.2
[root@localhost Python-3.2]# gcc
bash: gcc: command not found

Need help I'm ASSuming that I need to install a C compiler, but I'm struggling, any help would be appreciated,

Thanks,

just change the title! be descriptive people
duh!

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Cheers and welcome to Linux!

You have to install a C compiler (gcc). Install the gcc package through Yum or Aptitude. Then re-run the configure script. You'll probably get some more errors because you'll probably also need your kernel's header files also but you can work on that after installing gcc.

how i install gcc compiler. how i build & run c program in fedora 14

Dont hi-jack a thread.

Start your own. (yum install gcc -y; gcc program.c)

In CentOs there should be no need to compile python.

Try before you try to compile it on your own.

Also try to learn about the yum options;

Yum provides "meta-packages" to install complete sets of software, I guess there is one for a building enviroment, too