Kevin, Thank you for the answers. I think this is at least a good lead for forward progress. I don't think I have a live CD (unless I am misunderstanding the term). I burned an install CD. The hard disk was re-partitioned. It was for sure a CD not a DVD. There may not be enough space to have included all of gcc. The total size was just under the capacity of the CD (I had to ensure it was a long time audio instead of a short time audio disk). Opinion based on that? I think I can paraphrase your last answer as follows: You can use a Redhat Package Manager to download gcc (maybe), and if so, you are recommending it. Therefore, I will search the net trying to do that. Do you have a repository link I should be looking at? Again, thank you for the help. John -----Original Message----- From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Kevin Kofler Sent: Friday, April 03, 2009 6:28 PM To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Building gcc and NS-2 Problems John wrote: > Is there a c compiler included in the ISO fedora 10 disk install? The Fedora 10 DVD does in fact include the gcc package. The live CDs don't, there's no room for it on them. > Should I be building gcc? That seems to need a c compiler too. > I have downloaded that package and tried, but failed with similar > results. What I don't get is why you can download the source code, but not the RPM from the repository. Of course you may have to do some dependency hunt (i.e. download some more packages required by gcc, or -devel packages required to build NS-2 - hint: just because a library is installed doesn't mean you can compile software using the library, support for compiling software is provided in separate packages with a -devel suffix) though. Kevin Kofler -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.0.238 / Virus Database: 270.11.40/2039 - Release Date: 04/03/09 06:19:00 -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines