From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Christian Pirschalawa" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: cannot install emacs on a laptop Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 09:37:41 +0100 Message-ID: <002801c6fbfe$a9a5d400$9bb0028d@christian> References: <002e01c6fb80$dee0fbf0$9bb0028d@christian> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1162197571 15570 80.91.229.2 (30 Oct 2006 08:39:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 08:39:31 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 30 09:39:28 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GeSfn-0004Av-QQ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 09:39:15 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GeSfn-0001xb-BH for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 03:39:11 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GeSfY-0001s5-IF for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 03:38:56 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GeSfX-0001qd-NF for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 03:38:56 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GeSfX-0001qR-Ke for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 03:38:55 -0500 Original-Received: from [141.2.22.233] (helo=chaplin.rz.uni-frankfurt.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1GeSfX-0007xL-F2 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 03:38:55 -0500 Original-Received: from blade22-2.rz.uni-frankfurt.de ([141.2.22.192]) by chaplin.rz.uni-frankfurt.de with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1GeSfV-0005Qq-U3 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 09:38:53 +0100 Original-Received: from 658pc.wohnheimg.uni-frankfurt.de ([141.2.176.155] helo=christian) by blade22-2.rz.uni-frankfurt.de with smtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1GeSfS-0008Pc-Mu for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 09:38:51 +0100 Original-To: X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2869 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2962 X-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-SpamCheck: X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:38412 Archived-At: ----- Original Message ----- From: "Leo" To: Sent: Sunday, October 29, 2006 6:46 PM Subject: Re: cannot install emacs on a laptop > On Sun, 29/10/06, Christian Pirschalawa wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I tried to install emacs on my laptop, but the configure script doesn't >> run >> proberly. It does not find gcc or cc and shows the error "No acceptable >> cc >> found in $PATH". I tried it under SUSE and ubuntu, it's the same. >> >> I'm a Linux beginner, therefore I have no clue what this error message >> means. >> > > You need a c compiler. > > In SuSE, fire up yast and install `gcc' > In ubuntu, apt-get install gcc > > -- > Leo Hi, apt-get sais that "the gcc package is not available, but is referred to by another package. This may mean hat the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or is only available from another source. E: Package gcc has no installation candidate." I checked the Synaptic Package Manager: The gcc package is already installed. Chris