Nate879 wrote: > Some other sites say to install "glibc-devel". But AFAIK, this package isn't > available. The exact name of the package varies from distro to distro, but the advice still holds. Debian calls it "libc-dev" which is a virtual package that currently expands to something like libc6-dev. How did you manage to install a compiler without the APT dependencies also causing this package to be installed? It should be automatically added. Oh, I see, it's only "recommends:" not "depends:" <http://packages.debian.org/etch/gcc>. Brian