On 02/09/2010 07:22 PM, afkoeppel wrote: > I am brand new to linux/unix and I am trying to install a program that > requires gfortran. My understanding is that gfortran is part of gcc, and > that I therefore need to install gcc to run it. You almost certainly do not need to build gcc yourself to get gfortran. Most, if not all, Linux distributions provide gfortran as a pre-built package. If you had told us which Linux distribution you were using, we might have been able to tell you how to install gfortran. Andrew.
