which debian download in market place has gcc installed

[sxw97]

Hi,

I tried to download a debian virtual appliance in market pace. I need to run gcc in this debian on top of my windows7 machine. But there are about 100 different appliances under the search "debian". I picked one (forgot which one), downloaded, but it didn't have gcc in it! Not wanting to experiment one by one, please help me. I need a debian squeeze (stable) or lenny.

None of the virtual appliance tech info show anything about what comes in its package.

Thanks so much,

Shari

[orthohin]

                            

For 32 bit Debain you can download from here  http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/i386/gcc-4.4-base/download For 64 bit Debain you can download from here  http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/ia64/gcc-4.4-base/download 

Regards,
Milton

[orthohin]

                          

You can also download upper version but it is not stable. Please follow the link.. http://packages.debian.org/sid/gcc-4.5-base 

[sxw97]

Thanks for your response. Does the link you pointed run on vmware player or bare metal?

[WoodyZ]

Those links are for the gcc compiler installer not a whole Virtual Appliance so just download and install it in the Linux Virtual Machine you already have.

[a_p_]

AFAIK GCC is required to install VMware Tools in a Debian and other Linux VMs, so any virtual appliance which claims to have VMware Tools installed should already have GCC installed too.

The last time I installed GCC for the installation of VMware Tools on Debian Squeeze, I ran:

• apt-get install gcc-4.3 linux-headers-2.6-amd64 make
• export CC=/usr/bin/gcc-4.3

(you may want to select newer versions though)

André

[wila]

Shari,

It would actually have been useful if you have mentioned what you wanted to do with gcc.

If it is for compiling a minimal c++ application then you can use any debian and simply run:

 sudo apt-get install build-essentials

That will setup a basic build environment including gcc and the automake scripts.

--

Wil

Message was edited by: wila: PS manually downloading and installing basic things like a compiler are typically not done on debian as you then just are creating problems for yourself with libraries that are different from the default etc.. Unless you already have a lot of experience with both debian and gcc I would suggest not to do that and use apt-get (or its GUI variant synaptic ) instead to install gcc and any other things you might need.