Re: OT: Need help compiling C files

[T Elcor <telcor@yahoo.com>]

--- On Tue, 4/10/12, Kumar Appaiah <a.kumar@alumni.iitm.ac.in> wrote:

> It works for me.
> 
> Please try sudo apt-get install build-essential and then try
> again; the
> headers might not be present.

I'm on Wheezy, installing build-essential appears to be a bit problematic:

# aptitude install make gcc build-essential 
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  build-essential bzip2{a} dpkg-dev{a} g++{a} g++-4.6{a} libc-dev-bin{a} libc6-dev{a} 
  libclass-isa-perl{a} libdpkg-perl{a} libfile-fcntllock-perl{a} libstdc++6-4.6-dev{a} libswitch-perl{a} 
  libtimedate-perl{a} linux-libc-dev{a} 
The following packages will be upgraded:
  perl perl-base perl-modules 
The following packages are RECOMMENDED but will NOT be installed:
  fakeroot libalgorithm-merge-perl manpages-dev 
3 packages upgraded, 14 newly installed, 0 to remove and 16 not upgraded.
Need to get 23.8 MB of archives. After unpacking 35.2 MB will be used.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 libtext-charwidth-perl : Depends: perlapi-5.12.4 which is a virtual package.
 libuuid-perl : Depends: perlapi-5.12.3 which is a virtual package.
 libdbi-perl : Depends: perlapi-5.12.3 which is a virtual package.
 liblocale-gettext-perl : PreDepends: perlapi-5.12.4 which is a virtual package.
 libdbd-mysql-perl : Depends: perlapi-5.12.4 which is a virtual package.
 libperl5.12 : Depends: perl-base (= 5.12.4-6) but 5.14.2-9 is to be installed.
 libtext-iconv-perl : Depends: perlapi-5.12.4 which is a virtual package.
The following actions will resolve these dependencies:

 Remove the following packages: <list of 144 packages>