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From: Pascal Bourguignon <pjb@informatimago.com>
Subject: Re: cannot install emacs on a laptop
Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2006 18:44:10 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87iri3ggph.fsf@thalassa.informatimago.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.394.1162143513.27805.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org

"Christian Pirschalawa" <c.pirschalawa@gmx.de> writes:
> 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.

If you try to install emacs from the sources, you need a C compiler,
such as gcc, to compile it.

You have two choices:

- try to install a binary package for emacs.

- install the gcc C compiler, and try to compile again emacs from the sources.


-- 
__Pascal Bourguignon__                     http://www.informatimago.com/
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       reply	other threads:[~2006-10-29 17:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.394.1162143513.27805.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2006-10-29 17:44 ` Pascal Bourguignon [this message]
2006-10-29 17:37 cannot install emacs on a laptop Christian Pirschalawa
2006-10-29 17:46 ` Leo
2006-10-29 18:26   ` Pierre Lorenzon
2006-10-30  8:37   ` Christian Pirschalawa
     [not found]   ` <mailman.427.1162197539.27805.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2006-10-30 17:47     ` Harald Hanche-Olsen
     [not found] ` <mailman.395.1162144217.27805.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2006-10-29 20:30   ` Colin S. Miller
2006-10-30  1:13 ` Eric Hanchrow

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