make command

[arthurracoon]

I have 6.06 Dapper drake and am trying to install the make command

In my /usr/bin folder I have the following that have "make" somewhere in the name:

ccmakedep
hp-makeuri
imake
makedepend
make_driver_db_cups
make_driver_db_lpr
makeg
makekdewidgets
make-memtest86+-boot-floppy


I am trying to install a program, and I need to use the make command, but I dont have that command.

How can I install the make command, or convert one of the above to make (with an alias?)

[eriefisher]

Re: make command

If your trying to install from source you need the build-essentials package.

sudo apt-get install build-essentials

eriefisher

[arthurracoon]

Re: make command

If your trying to install from source you need the build-essentials package.

sudo apt-get install build-essentials

eriefisher

I tried that, but then I only had the same "make" commands as before (listed above)

[Rog131]

Re: make command

Strange - it (build-essential)should install make because:

:~$ apt-cache show build-essential
Package: build-essential
Priority: optional
Section: devel
Installed-Size: 48
Maintainer: Scott James Remnant <scott@netsplit.com>
Architecture: i386
Version: 11.1
Depends: libc6-dev | libc-dev, gcc (>= 4:4.0), g++ (>= 4:4.0), make, dpkg-dev (>= 1.13.5)

Did you ?

sudo apt-get install build-essentials

or

sudo apt-get install build-essential

What happens, if you try:

sudo apt-get install make

[arthurracoon]

Re: make command

Strange - it (build-essential)should install make because:

:~$ apt-cache show build-essential
Package: build-essential
Priority: optional
Section: devel
Installed-Size: 48
Maintainer: Scott James Remnant <scott@netsplit.com>
Architecture: i386
Version: 11.1
Depends: libc6-dev | libc-dev, gcc (>= 4:4.0), g++ (>= 4:4.0), make, dpkg-dev (>= 1.13.5)

Did you ?

sudo apt-get install build-essentials

or

sudo apt-get install build-essential

What happens, if you try:

sudo apt-get install make

sudo apt-get install make worked

thanks!