Frustrated trying to install missing functions

Last summer I purchased a new computer running Lindows 4.5 which is based on linux. Unfortunately, the Lindows people stripped away crucial linux functions which they then offer to sell back to us for $50 through their proprietary system CNR ("Click and Run"). My efforts to get around this by using RPM files have been spectacularly unsuccessful. For example, I found the following discussion on the Internet:

This was very exciting to read, because "make" and "gcc" are just what I needed. I even went to the trouble of learning to program in the C language in order to use gcc. But alas, every attempt to install any of these results in a long list of failed dependencies. For example, here is the output from glibc-devel-2.3.3-98.i586:

Happy:-aliquot# rpm -ihv glibc-*.rpm error: failed dependencies: bin-rm is needed by glibc-devel-2.3.3-98 glibc = 2.3.3 is needed by glibc-devel-2.3.3-98 bin-sh is needed by glibc-devel-2.3.3-98 bin-sh is needed by glibc-devel-2.3.3-98 usr-bin-perl is needed by glibc-devel-2.3.3-98 libc.so.6 is needed by glibc-devel-2.3.3-98 libc.so.6(GLIBC2.0) is needed by glibc-devel-2.3.3-98 libc.so.6(GLIBC2.1) is needed by glibc-devel-2.3.3-98 libc.so.6(GLIBC2.3) is needed by glibc-devel-2.3.3-98 libdl.so.2 is needed by glibc-devel-2.3.3-98 libdl.so.2(GLIBC2.0) is needed by glibc-devel-2.3.3-98 libdl.so.2(GLIBC2.1) is needed by glibc-devel-2.3.3-98

What is especially mystifying is that several of the above are in fact present in my system:bin-rm,bin-sh andusr-bin-perl. And every attempt to install any of the needed libc or libdl items produces yet another long list of failed dependencies. The only explanation I can think of is that there is incompatibility due to different versions of linux.

What am I doing wrong? Any help would be much appreciated.

Clifford Stern