I have installed ubuntu 5.04 and I find out that it does not come with a compiler.
so I downloaded one and used apt-get install gcc, it seems like everything went okay. Then I tryed ./configure for xine only to have it say at the end:

checking whether we are using the gnu c++ compiler...no
checking whether g++ accepts -g...no
checking dependency style of g++...none
checking how to run the c++ preprocessor.../lib/cpp
configure: error: c++ preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails sanity check

what is going on here I am the only thing losing sanity

"apt-get install cpp" Does that work? Gcc is only the c compiler. cpp is edit: preprocessor.

apt-get install cpp

reading package lists...done
building dependency tree...done
cpp is already the newest version.
o upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not updated


now what do I do?

Wait it was "apt-get install g++" cpp is the preprocessor (changed in post above) and gcc is normal c and g++ is c++.

Can't you install xine from the repositories btw

"repositories btw"

what is that?

and why does ubuntu want me to insert the ubuntu cd when I change something or install something?

Well the servers with packages. Btw = by the way.

Like in debian I can do "apt-get install xine" and it'll install it all fine.

I think you still have the CDrom in your /etc/apt/sources.list You can safely delete the line if you use the internet for packages. If you later want it back you can run "apt-setup"

now there is a configure error

zlib needed.

"apt-get install zlibc" Can't you just do "apt-get install xine"?

"Can't you just do "apt-get install xine"?"

nope, it says
e: couldn't find package xine.

I see. Well it's probably not there then but you might want to do "apt-cache search xine" that'll search the package lists for the keyword xine. Might help (if not maybe for other things later)

e: cannot find package zlibc.

Ok for some reason finding an rpm for this is hard. there are plenty for the ui but not for this lib. Please tell me where to find one.

Which distro are we talking about now? Ubuntu or FC3. If fc3 you might as well try xine.rpm in google and find lots of sites with xine rpms.

What does your /etc/apt/sources.list look like if you use ubuntu?

Try "apt-cache search zlib" maybe you can find the name of the package that way.

I am using ubuntu, I switched so I need to change my profile.

my sources list looks confusing, it has some Internet urls but I do not know what specific thing I should be looking for.

and when I searched for zlib it came up with zlib1g a compression library.

I thought ubuntu was supposed to be easier than fedora and most others but I was wrong, fedora was very hard but it made more sense than this, at least it came with a compiler and cpp librarys and was ready to install source immediately.