Hmm, thanks for the tip Brian, I had actually thought of whether I needed to be logged in as root before and wasn't sure how to. It didn't work though, but at least I know how to login as root now

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Anyways, here's what the terminal is telling me:
[arklinux@localhost gaim-0.67]$ su
[root@localhost gaim-0.67]# ./configure
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking for sed... /bin/sed
checking for gcc... no
checking for cc... no
checking for cc... no
checking for cl... no
configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH
See `config.log' for more details.
Obviously, I need a C compiler. What that is, how to install it, and make it work, I do not know.
Thanks in advance again for any help.