>you are wrong in your assertion that Ubuntu >allows you to compile hello.c with nothing more than >installing a few packages. There is nothing in the >standard packages that includes build-essential. Try >it: Do a fresh installation on a clean machine and, >without using the sudo apt-get, try to compile >hello.c. You will not be able to.
you can compile hello.c with nothing more than installing a few packages. running sudo apt-get IS installing a few packages. if build-essential is not in the ubuntu install CD (is it not?), you could use this trick: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/PackageCDs -- Standard installation does not produce a working environment https://launchpad.net/bugs/79418 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
