Read the installation instructions on our web site http://www.debian.org, and install a Debian Linux system on a spare disk partition using those instructions. You won't need the compiler to do that. You may then install the "gcc" package and compile what you like, but we provide all of the programs pre-compiled, so that is definitely optional.
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