development packages

[Tony Dietrich]

On Thursday 13 Jan 2005 01:24, Mark Knecht wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 19:21:43 -0600, Otto Haliburton
>
> <ottohaliburton at comcast.net> wrote:
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com
> > > [mailto:redhat-install-list- bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Mark
> > > Knecht
> > > Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2005 7:15 PM
> > > To: Otto Haliburton
> > > Cc: Getting started with Red Hat Linux
> > > Subject: Re: development packages
> > >
> > > On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 19:07:17 -0600, Otto Haliburton
> > >
> > > <ottohaliburton at comcast.net> wrote:
> > > > Mark, I don't know what you are doing, but I definitely did not
> > >
> > > experience
> > >
> > > > what you are going through when I installed fc2 or fc3. When you
> > >
> > > installed
> > >
> > > > you did the up2date thing I assume, and then I installed all of the
> > >
> > > packages
> > >
> > > > using the system thing.  So I don't know what is happening to you.
> > >
> > > I need to build ndiswrapper, or that's what I've done in the past.
> > > Maybe there's an RPM somewhere I should try installing. I'll look in
> > > the page you pointed me to a minute ago.
> > >
> > > However, and this has happened to me pretty much every time I've
> > > installed FC, is that I choose the Desktop installation to build the
> > > machine and it installs NO tools. I don't get gcc, automake, autoconf,
> > > etc., so I cannot build source and have to struggle through RPM to try
> > > and get the stuff I need. That's the state I'm in right now and trying
> > > to get beyond.
> > >
> > > It would be great if there was some macro command that said 'update
> > > this machine and give me the toolset required to build code', but
> > > there doesn't seem to be a way to do that AFAICT.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Mark
> > >
> > > _______________________________________________
> >
> > You got me I always specify with the installation to install everything
> > so I get everything, but you may have to install of the libraries with
> > the install/remove applications thing in order for it to install the
> > development tools.  Like I said I always go through that routine and
> > select everything, there maybe a flag that will allow you to do it I will
> > need to go to linux in a minute and see
>
> there must be some way to tel RPM to install everything even now,
> right? I don't have to go back and rebuild the system from scratch to
> get this stuff.
>
> Once I hear about yum, which seems to be what redhat-update is using.
> Can I use yum to get this handled more painlessly?
>
> Thanks again!
>
> - Mark
>
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AFAIK, Desktop installation never installs development toold .. after all, its 
an installation aimed at someone who is just using the system as a desktop 
computer, not a development system.  All program installations etc are 
supposed to be done by rom/apt/yum.

Try the full install, or Add the development packages to the Desktop 
installation in the Package Selections screen in Anaconda.  You do run 
Anaconda with the Review Packages box ticked don't you?

-- 
Tony Dietrich
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