Hello,

I'm more or less a newbie to Linux (and this forum). I am trying to install a few components on my PC for Smokeping. Along the way, I've encountered several problems installing components on the OS (I'm using CentOS 5.1); one of the components is fping.

I've uncompressed and extracted the file...that's about it. I read some of the installation notes but I'm confused. In the fping directory (fping version 2.4b2), I've tried running:

"./configure" and "bash configure" and I get the following error:

I looked up what this could possibly be (a C Compiler). I wouldn't know where to look on my system for it or how to install the binary. As I mentioned, I'm rather new to Linux.
I also ran this command too:

[root@happv fping]# find / -name cc

Nothing turned up. And, the "usr/bin" directory does not show fping.Thank you for any help regarding this.

Hi Treikayan,

AFAIK, CentOS is based on the Red Hat flavored Linux distribution(s). I googled for "gcc" and CentOS and that returned the first item which I think has hints as to what you need to do:

http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/...wmode=threaded

bgoodr

Thank you, bgoodr.

Querying RPM said I didn't have the package installed, so I installed, and the ./configure compiled. I was then able to complete the installation for fping.

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