No Make, No install, No joy

When I attempted to install a program from source code i realised that in the stripped-down version of fedora that is Linpus, "Make" is not installed. The online repositories do not include "make" because (I suppose)it is a core feature that should be installed as default with any distribution.

My question is: I wish to be able to run make on my aspire one. Can I just copy any files with "make" in the title from a (fedora) live CD to the corresponding folders of my aser aspired version of linpus - or is that too simplistic a view?

in anticipation

Trevor Noble

 

make and compilers like gcc and so on ARE in the repositories. Look at the category "development" in pirut (add/remove software) or install them from the command line with

Code:

sudo yum install make gcc

Of course, you will need the necessary development libraries as well...

 

There's a meta-package that should install everything you need... yum install build-essential

Perry
www.kidpub.com

 

build-essential does not exist for fedora afaik...

Of course,

Code:

sudo yum groupinstall "Development Tools"

and optionally

Code:

sudo yum groupinstall "Legacy Software Development"

would amount to pretty much the same thing. However, it is a few 100 mb.

 

How quickly we forget that everyone isn't running Ubuntu

Perry
www.kidpub.com

 

Well, my SUSE 11.0 did not have it either