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Hello everyone, I was trying to install alsa driver for my sound card but i found this error message: root@dEBx:/usr/lib/alsa# ls alsa-driver-1.0.15 alsa-lib-1.0.15 alsa-utils-1.0.15 root@dEBx:/usr/lib/alsa# cd alsa-driver-1.0.15root@dEBx:/usr/lib/alsa/alsa-driver-1.0.15# ./configure --with-cards=hda-intel --with-sequencer=yes ...
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    Unhappy error: C compiler cannot create executables



    Hello everyone,
    I was trying to install alsa driver for my sound card but i found this error message:

    root@dEBx:/usr/lib/alsa# ls
    alsa-driver-1.0.15 alsa-lib-1.0.15 alsa-utils-1.0.15
    root@dEBx:/usr/lib/alsa# cd alsa-driver-1.0.15root@dEBx:/usr/lib/alsa/alsa-driver-1.0.15# ./configure --with-cards=hda-intel --with-sequencer=yes
    checking for gcc... gcc
    checking for C compiler default output file name... configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables
    See `config.log' for more details.


    Any Idea whats wrong?2 days ago I installed ubuntu .There I installed alsa-driver-1.0.14 but it was ok .No error message was showed.I installed ubuntu again after making new partition and now I have this problem.Please help me if anybody know how to do it.

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    Have you installed build-essential package?
    It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
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    no.I have not.What should I do?How to install build-essential package?

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    Execute this
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    su
    apt-get update
    apt-get install build-essential
    It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
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