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make : cc : command not found

I am trying to build a sample kernel module called to print "hello world" .
I want to generate a .ko file from the .c file

so i type the command
% make hello

I get the following error.

% make : cc : command not found
% make : *** [hello] Error 127

I think that this error might be because may be cc compiler might not be installed .
but how do i check whether it is installed or not ?
and in case i find that it is not installed then what do i do and how do i install it?

the process varies depending on your distro
for Fedora 8 or 9 it would be
~]# yum install kernel-devel
just install the your currant kernel source packages
and the dev tools for your distro

As John VV pointed out, it all depends on your distro. If you're using Ubuntu, you could just do the following:
sudo apt-get install build-essential

Alternatively, you could simply do this to just get the compiler:
sudo apt-get install gcc

yum localinstall gcc

i am working on fedora core 8 installed as a guest OS on a vmware server

I tried using yum install gcc
but it give the following error:

Could not retrieve mirrorlist http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mir...ra-8&arch=i386 error was [Errorno 4]IOError: <urlopen error (-2, 'Name or service not known')>
Erro: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml)for repository : fedora.
Please verify its path and try again.

as to the error
1) mirror may be down , it happens try tomorrow
2) wrong mirror , there has been a change it the last 7 months
[code]
su -
gedit /etc/yum.repo.d/fedora.repo
mine

Quote:

[fedora]
name=Fedora $releasever - $basearch
failovermethod=priority
#baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/$releasever/Everything/$basearch/os/
mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=fedora-$releasever&arch=$basearch
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY

[fedora-debuginfo]
name=Fedora $releasever - $basearch - Debug
failovermethod=priority
#baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/$releasever/Everything/$basearch/debug/
mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=fedora-debug-$releasever&arch=$basearch
enabled=0
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY

[fedora-source]
name=Fedora $releasever - Source
failovermethod=priority
#baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/$releasever/Everything/source/SRPMS/
mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=fedora-source-$releasever&arch=$basearch
enabled=0
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY

from Applications / add/remove just put a check in
Development / Development Libraries
Development / Development Tools
if using Gnome
Development / GNOME software Development
Development / Legacy Software Development
and install

when i tried to save the fedora.repomine file ,it gives the error "File Not Found"

hey well i could find the file in the yum.repos.d directory
but the file already contains the same code which u gave.
and so when i install it it gives the same error.

Is the networking set-up right for your VM? Can you contact the
host OS, can you ping anything on the network?

also you can try uncommenting the baseurl in fedora.repo and fedora_update.repo

Code:

#baseurl=http://do...

-- to ---

baseurl=http://do...

can you access google.com or yahoo.com while in the vm environment