development packages

[Otto Haliburton]

> -----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