Ben Snyder wrote: > Hi folks > > Forgive me if this is the wrong list, or if this topic has been covered... > > First off, I've been using Ubuntu for a little over a month. Great > distro, until now I've used nothing but Debian at home and CentOS at > work. The only problem I see so far is that the desktop install doesn't > give any options. It would be great to have a developer version, which > installs gcc, g++, autoconf, gnu make, etc. Maybe this doesn't appeal > to the target user base, though it would make my life as an admin much > simpler. > > For now I've had to come up with a shell script to apt-get many > additional packages before my users have a useful system in place. > > Thanks, > Ben Snyder > > > I can't believe you didn't know about the build-essential package!
sudo apt-get install build-essential I know, Ubuntu is tailored more to the home user and does not include it all by default, so we have a package called "build-essential" for the people who actually need it, which downloads/installs all the packages needed for basic compiling (what you have mentioned). Viper550 -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
