Ubuntu is being positioned at the typical office/home user -- the non-techies -- hence any dev packages are not isntalled by default.
Having a "standard dev" meta-package would be useful, but what would be placed in it? LAMP programmers' needs are different from C programmers (or any other platform-specific developers). I think that's why there's just a build-essential metapackage (make, gcc, etc.) You then pick what else you need, e.g. install kernel headers if you'll be compiling kernel modules (some software, like VMWare Server, require this), or the full source if you'll be hacking away at the kernel. --- mike t. Pablo Manalastas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: In my Yahoo blog: "Ubuntu-7.04 : Where's the C Compiler?" http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-0OCENX4haau1oA38TsiK4DP2YLk-?cq=1&p=43 I narrate my misadventure with the Ubuntu 7.04 GNU c-compiler. Please read if you want to learn from my mistake. P~Manalastas _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
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