help w/ error please

[determinedblkman]

i'm running linspire 6.0 and i'm trying to ....well here you look and tell me wat the problem---> root@linspire:/home/geexbox/source/lzma-4.32.7# ./configure
checking if debugging code should be compiled... no
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking for g++... no
checking for c++... no
checking for gpp... no
checking for aCC... no
checking for CC... no
checking for cxx... no
checking for cc++... no
#a bunch more of no's...then
checking for C++ compiler default output file name...
configure: error: C++ compiler cannot create executables
See ..config.log' for more details
what does this mean?

[devils casper]

Hi and Welcome !

Compilers are not installed. Execute this

sudo apt-get install build-essential