Please not drive me mad since this is the third place where i try to get any suitable solution to my problem

So would be that i have got a SuSE Starter Kit installed on my old P233. It is slow, and as i experienced once, i think i can highly boost it with a recompiled kernel (I need the compiler for other purposes too). I happily got the newest one from Kernel.org, then it appeared me that i have not got GCC, and it can not be found on the installation disk too (It said that it have, i selected, but finally not installed anything). So i started Googling around and found a dozens of binaries, but none for Intel + Linux. I accidentally downloaded a GCC source too, but of course it has no use for me.

I am certainly a newbie to Linux, but i have many experience from Windows, and i had no problem with messing around with Bash (As i said i already compiled and installed a kernel on an older distro).

An another important thing is that my network access is greatly limited: i can not download a new distro just for the compiler. I need it alone as a binary.


So if anybody could help me out?

SuSE personal edition does not ship with the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC), as you have discovered.

You can download it from the SuSE FTP server:
— Open YaST
— Go to Software/Change Source of Installation
— enter the address of a download mirror obtained from www.novell.com/linux/suse
— Save the configuration and make the new source the default (move it to the top)

You should then be able to download GCC binaries through YaST. You'll also need glibc-devel (the GNU C libraries) in order to actually compile anything.

If speed is your problem, then note that SuSE uses KDE by default. You might want to look at a lightweight window manager like AfterStep or WindowMaker — these tend to be more obscure in the way that they work (i.e. read the documentation!) but you will find them a lot faster. Also, use Firefox rather than Konqueror for web browsing; it's much faster especially outside of KDE.

Sadly i am not connected to the network with that computer. The kernel needs to be recompiled to insert a module what would recognize my old ISA modem - funny :-?. I almost never use KDE: recently i used Ffvmm (Or something the like: i can not remember how it is written), but AfterStep is fast like it too.

So i guess this makes the solution much harder. I need to download that damned package with Windows, then write it to a CD-RW, and install on my Linux from there.

Are you sure that nothing was installed? GCC is not exactly the kind of program that creates links it the K menu...

Type "whereis gcc" to find out if it is installed and where.

I typed in "make menuconfig" for the kernel, then make not found. I guess this answers your question

This is certainly getting on my nerves. This is the seventh year i spend with triing to install a Linux, now i Googled around for one and a half hour, looked under every bush, tried to dig up GCC from Suse, but Intel binaries are nowhere. So will i have to format that HDD with Linux and forget about it forewer? It is simply too much work to write a new compiler just to compile my damned kernel or anything. Not to mention that it would be certainly funny by starting off from a hex editor. Probably i would finish with it to some day when everybody will gaze at me "What?!" if i tell the word "Linux"...

As i said without recompiling the kernel i have no chance to log on the network with that Linux as it not have got anything installed for ISA. So it helps nothing that "if i go online with Linux..." as it is simply impossible. And i not have got GCC there. Those continous miles of bits coding GCC are simply missing from my CD. This was what i could not make understood anywhere, but if GCC is not there, it will not appear there just because somebody says that it have to be there.

I think next day if i get up the first thing will be grabbing a huge hammer and smashing that damned HDD in pieces with that cursed Linux on it...