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kristian writes: > On Nov 30, 2007 1:53 PM, dan moylan <[hidden email]> wrote: > > no includes -- at all -- not even stdio.h -- sorry for not > > being more explicit. the build-essential install did the > > trick. should i have been able to find this on my own? i > > was amazed that they were not there and had no idea as to > > where to look. > I think Ubuntu made the decision to not include them, since most > Desktop users are not programmers :-) There is documentation about > this on wiki.ubuntu.com and various other places. If you hit F1 at > your Desktop, a help window will come up where you can get lots of > information, even if you don't have an Internet connection. Coming > from Red Hat, you probably wouldn't know all this, so no worries. But > now you do! And knowing is half the battle ... or something like that > :-P thanks, post facto i did the F1 trick, and searched under gcc, then c but didn't find it. searching c++ found build-essential, as did just programming. one just needs to know how to ask the right question. i still don't understand why ubuntu would include gcc in the default installation, but not build-essentials. but then maybe i'm not supposed to. dan j. daniel moylan 84 harvard ave brookline, ma 02446-6202 617-232-2360 (tel) 810-454-1823 (fax) [hidden email] www.moylan.info [death to html bloat!] -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [hidden email] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
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