Setting up development environment

[Michael Satterwhite <michael@weblore.com>]

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I'm trying to set up a standard development environment in Debian and running 
into some problems. It's no longer possible during installation to select a 
development environment during installation with the installer, so I've got 
to piece it together afterward. Should be no problem with apt, ... but

I installed gcc 3.4. It puts it on the system as gcc-3.4 instead of as gcc 
which is what I'd expect. Would break a *LOT* of makefiles. No problem, says 
I ... that's what ln is for.

I try to execute gcc to build a system. I get the error message that cc1plus 
is not installed. I *THOUGHT* apt was supposed to prevent this type of error, 
but maybe this one slipped through. Nothing is perfect, no matter how good.

Regardless, can anyone point me at a reasonable way to get the development 
environment set up? Working compilers, make, etc. It's taking more time to 
get the ability to compile than it took to install Debian.

tia
- ---Michael
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