Hello:

I found that my usbdrive had a trash bin on it and several times tried to delete it unsuccessfully. When I did manage it deleted the entire contents of the drive!

I'm going to try and get it back using 'foremost'. However, I'm already having problems trying to install foremost.

I have uncompressed the foremost tar but when I try and install using make, I get the following error:
[root@localhost foremost-1.1]# make
gcc -Wall -O2 -DVERSION=\"1.1\" -D__UNIX -D__LINUX -DLARGEFILE64_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -c main.c
make: gcc: Command not found
make: *** [main.o] Error 127

I ‘whereis’d gcc and it is in:
/ur/libexec/gcc

Is gcc in the wrong place? It shouldn’t be as my Linux is a fresh install off a commercially produced CD …

Any ideas

me!

check your PATH!

What happens if you?

It gives:
bash: gcc: command not found

What is PATH?

Thanks!

me!

PATH is an environment variable that tells in which folders your system will search for executable files (commands).
You can view it with "echo $PATH". To set it do "export PATH=/path1:/path/number2" with the paths divided by colons ":". To append a path to the existing PATH do "export PATH=$PATH:/new/path".

But it seems you have to install some development packages from your distribution, at least the gcc or g++ package (don't know how it is named in FC).

Edit: Type "yum install gcc" as root to install the gcc compiler package.

I don't know what gcc -v is supposed to do but when I whereis gcc I get:
gcc: /usr/libexec/gcc

So it is there!

I guess I need to do something with PATH but I don't knwo what. I tried PATH=$PATH:/usr/libexec but it gave no positive or negative feedback.

I did try again with Make and got a slightly different error message:

gcc -Wall -O2 -DVERSION=\"1.1\" -D__UNIX -D__LINUX -DLARGEFILE64_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -c main.c
make: execvp: gcc: Permission denied
make: *** [main.o] Error 127

Very strange it gives 'permission denied'. I am logged in as root ...

me!

How did you become root? If you typed "su" you could also try "su -" (<s><u> <space><dash>). The PATH variable will be set different depending on which one you choose, although I don't now about possible differences between FC and Slackware (for example about the SELinux configuration).

I guess question you have to answer is:

"Is your gcc package installed correct?"

re-install it (package) and see what happens.

also try may give you some clue.

I became root by entering root as 'user' at the login screen.

What is the difference between su and su-?

me!

'su -' reads in the login/startup files for root (/root/.bash_profile, etc.) so that you have root's environment rather than your own. This generally avoids needing to prefix commands with /usr/sbin or /sbin and similar things.

Like I mentioned in your other thread, it does not seem like gcc is installed. If it were, it would be in /usr/bin and not /usr/libexec.