build essentials

[seveneleven]

Hi

I need to install build-essential on Mandriva 2008 64 bit. All of my searches return the suggestion of using apt-get from the synaptic package. I have also read that it isnt recommended for Mandriva, and I can see why. All I get is errors.

 

I am more comfortable with urpmi, but I dont know what the package is called that I need to download. I have tried urpmi build-essentials, naturally that didnt work. Can anyone help?

 

Thanks for reading.

 

 

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[theYinYeti]

I suppose the build essentials (whatever those are...) would be installed by issueing the following command as root:

urpmi rpm-build flex bison

That's mostly for C, though.

 

Yves.