dan hitt wrote: > Hi Robert, > > I think the issue is that for somebody new to ubuntu, it is > very, very surprising that there's no compiler. It certainly > was to me. > > And the answer to your reasonable question can be either: > (1) that whoever is doing it does not yet know the > command sequence > sudo apt-get install gcc Or (for newbies, OK) System>Administration>Synaptic Package Manager Click the package "gcc" and "mark for installation". > (2) that whoever is doing it has a lousy internet connection, so > that these apt-get commands take so long they are not really > feasible. > > (And even though this is getting afield from gcc, ubuntu is free > software, and it is popular, so it comes up.) Yeah, and Ubuntu comes as standard with a very cut-down installer that'll fit on a CDR, so you have to install most packages afterwards. At least, it's only a CD image that I see on their getubuntu page. Andrew.
