HELP UBUNTU Do not have a proper compiling system
But, I thought I answered that! "Linux cannot actually be either BSD or SysV. It is possible to configure a Linux to be more similar to one than the other, but it's...
On Sun, 26 Feb 2006 15:27:04 -0600, Dan C staggered into the Black Sun and said:
Er, the scheme that John-Paul mentioned is also followed in RPM-based distros. It's done that way for space-saving reasons and to avoid confusing raw newbies with tons of extra packages, I guess. If you're not going to compile things from source, guess what, you don't need the header files that the *dev packages provide. It usually takes a new user a few weeks to get comfortable with the ".-configure ; make ; make install" thing anyway.
More experienced users tend to install the *dev packages anyway, though. Either they like to compile things from source, or they know there's going to be a program they want to run that doesn't have a binary package for that distro available. And then there's Gentoo, which builds everything from source by default, so gcc and almost all dev packages needed are installed on all Gentoo systems that haven't been seriously pruned.
On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 02:16:34 +0900, Wad staggered into the Black Sun and said: Floyd is right here, but I don't think that's...
-- Matt GThere is no Darkness in Eternity-But only Light too dim for us to see Brainbench MVP for Linux Admin mail: TRAP + SPAN don't belong ----------------------------- penguins, is Tux." --MegaHAL
Linux groups from Newsgroups