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Old 05-21-2007, 07:58 PM   #1
manolakis
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new to Debian cant find gcc


Hi there
I just installed Debian 64bit edition and i was looking for gcc compiler. As i can imagine it should be included. Am i right?
Has anyone got this edition and if yes could please tell me where to find a C compiler?

Thanks for your time
 
Old 05-21-2007, 09:52 PM   #2
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In Ubuntu (which is Debian based) you need to install the "build-essential" package to get GCC and it's deps...
 
Old 05-21-2007, 09:58 PM   #3
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aptitude search gcc

If you actually plan on compiling source programs you may need some of the peripheral libraries as well as whatever you get with # aptitude install build-essential
 
  


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