eeepc gcc install?

I have been trying to install some applications on the EEEPC, but it seems that everything requires GCC, and whenever i try to do anything, it tells me that there is no acceptable cc in $PATH.

Whenever i try to install GCC by downloading the .bz2 from the gcc site, after i extract and do ./configure, it tells me that i don't have GCC again, and therefore i can't install from the source.

How can i successfully install GCC?? This is really strange that you would need gcc to install gcc itself.

 

You should get it using the SPM (Synaptic), since when you installed Ubuntu it will have stored info for stuff like that somewhere.

 

How would do that? This is what ive tried

EEEKam:/home/user> apt-get install gcc-3.3-base
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
gcc-3.3-base is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 50 not upgraded.
EEEKam:/home/user> apt-get install cpp-3.3
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.

Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
that package should be filed.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
cpp-3.3: Depends: gcc-3.3-base (< 1:3.3.6) but 1:3.3.6-15 is to be installed
E: Broken packages


It somehow says that i need gcc-3.3-base, but when i try to apt-get install it, it tells me that i already have the latest version?

Or am i interpreting it totally wrong?

 

Try going through the visual SPM, I've found that in order to compile some things, I need to have multiple "levels" of gcc so get starting with the latest version and work your way backwards. I think this is just due to some incompatibilities between programs and the gcc they were compiled with.

 

Sorry, but whats a SPM? and how would i go about installing gcc from that?

 

Synaptic Package Manager, it's under the System->Admin->SPM, it'll bring open a new window. Use search to look for gcc, starting with the latest version, download (and install) them one at a time and keep trying your program until it works.