Rowan Posted January 15, 2005 Report Share Posted January 15, 2005 Hello all I have been trying to do my first installation from a tar.gz file. All was going well until the 'configure' stage where it rejected. I have been trying to install the new HP 'printer for Linux' programme at http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=16846 and the item is called hplip-8.0.4 . Here is the reject message that I received. checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes checking for chkconfig... found in /sbin checking for install_initd... no checking for rpm install... no configure: creating ./config.status config.status: creating Makefile configure: configuring in prnt configure: running /bin/sh './configure' --prefix=/usr '--prefix=/usr' --cache-file=/dev/null --srcdir=. checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking for gawk... gawk checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes checking for gcc... no checking for cc... no checking for cc... no checking for cl... no configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH See `config.log' for more details. configure: error: /bin/sh './configure' failed for prnt [root@localhost hplip-0.8.4]# Is anybody able to cast any light on where the trouble lies and how to fix it ??? I have my HP PSC1210 running ok but it would be noce to have dedicated systems. Many thanks in anticipation. Rowan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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nchancock Posted January 15, 2005 Report Share Posted January 15, 2005 (edited) You need a C or a C++ compiler. The best one is probably gcc, so you need to install it. Depending on your distro, mine is Mandrake 10.1, you will probably want to use the packaging utility. Open a terminal, switch to root and type: urpmi gcc urpmi gcc-c++ This will install the native C and C++ compiler on your system. Report back here if you have further problems (you might, I had MAJOR problems the first few times I built something from source.) Good luck :) Edited January 15, 2005 by nchancock Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rowan Posted January 15, 2005 Author Report Share Posted January 15, 2005 Thank you gnome and nchancock I followed your pointers and the installation went flawlessly. It is a bit of a pity that the system didn't tell me that it needed the gcc etc when I tried the first time. Once again many thanks and I apologise for being such a beginner. I also forgot to say that I am running Mandrake 10 Official. Rowan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted January 15, 2005 Report Share Posted January 15, 2005 we were all beginners that's why we are here Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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