From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Colin S. Miller" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: cannot install emacs on a laptop Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2006 20:30:42 +0000 Organization: SunSITE.dk - Supporting Open source Message-ID: <45450f7c$0$49208$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> References: <002e01c6fb80$dee0fbf0$9bb0028d@christian> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1162154435 13061 80.91.229.2 (29 Oct 2006 20:40:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2006 20:40:35 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Oct 29 21:40:35 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 1GeHSJ-00085J-4c for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 29 Oct 2006 21:40:31 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GeHSI-0002pj-IM for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 29 Oct 2006 15:40:30 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news4.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newspeer1.nwr.nac.net!colt.net!news.tele.dk!feed118.news.tele.dk!dotsrc.org!filter.dotsrc.org!news.dotsrc.org!not-for-mail User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (X11/20060927) Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: Original-Lines: 37 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 62.56.53.69 Original-X-Trace: news.sunsite.dk DXC=SH2o4oeGIZ?8NX=BCM0\c1YSB=nbEKnk; 54P@ki\C3N=G1[Bg<0aH50\VT\m5_SIb6U_42Df:PaK8TcL2h5ahoT?kF_>m>CYcV?:I\VJYmI50; kgdd@71S]J5oO Original-X-Complaints-To: staff@sunsite.dk Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:142773 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 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:38392 Archived-At: Leo wrote: > 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 > You also will need some other packages including xlib-dev If configure complains that it cant' find some package, you need to install the -dev version of it from apt or yum. Debian's package of Emacs 21 has these run-time dependancies. libc6, libice6, libjpeg62, libncurses5, libpng12-0, libsm6, libtiff4, libungif4g, libx11-6, libxext6, libxmu6, libxpm4, libxt6, xaw3dg, zlib1g I'm not sure what the related development packages are. HTH, Colin S. Miller -- Replace the obvious in my email address with the first three letters of the hostname to reply.