Troubles with gcc and make

[Mr.BlondE]

Hi rescue workers ;-)

Newbie needs some help. Ok, I am not a total newbie, but I have troubles with a very elementary thing. I've recently installed kubuntu and when I type 'gcc' or 'make' in Konsole it says command not found:

laptop:/$ gcc
bash: gcc: command not found
laptop:/$ make
bash: make: command not found


Problem is that apt-get install says that both utils are already installed!

laptop:/usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.0.3/include$ sudo apt-get install gcc-4.0-base
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
gcc-4.0-base is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

Now...the question is .... where?

When I search the filesystem with:
find / -name gcc
, it only finds a directory which contains:
laptop:/usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.0.3/include$ ls
mcpp_gcc40_predef_old.h  mcpp_gxx40_predef_old.h
mcpp_gcc40_predef_std.h  mcpp_gxx40_predef_std.


Can somebody help me please!?

Thanks in advance.

[Xena]

Re: Troubles with gcc and make

Maybe you need to be root.

Did you try sudo gcc, sudo make?

[Mr.BlondE]

Re: Troubles with gcc and make

Thank you for the fast reply. However, it did not help. Same result

Thanks anyway!

[kubicle]

Re: Troubles with gcc and make

To see if they really are installed, use

which gcc

it should print out '/usr/bin/gcc'

If not...I suggest you install/reinstall 'build-essential' metapackage...it contains the basic tools for compiling

[Goofus Maximus]

Re: Troubles with gcc and make

Kubuntu doesn't install any of this by default. You'll have to run adept and install the following all yourself:
gcc (it will install the latest version for you)
g++
gdb
binutils
bison
flex
make
automake
autoconf

You'll probably want to look while you pick these, for the doc files, which you'll want to install as well

[Fenyx]

Re: Troubles with gcc and make

How about installing build-essential instead? It will install everything needed to compile from source, including most of the stuff Goofus listed.