Linspire GCC

[The Almighty Dib]

I own Linspire (It being Debian Based, I posted here), overwriting Windows because I hate Windows completely. I'm trying to install WINE to play my Windows games but I don't have GCC. So, I'm trying to install that. But it comes up stupidly, saying:
TheAlmightyDib:~/My Documents/GCC/gcc-4.1.0# ./configure
loading cache ./config.cache
checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking target system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking for a BSD compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether ln works... yes
checking whether ln -s works... yes
checking for gcc... no
checking for cc... no
configure: error: no acceptable cc found in $PATH
TheAlmightyDib:~/My Documents/GCC/gcc-4.1.0#

Now, does that mean I need ANOTHER compiler to install GCC to install WINE?!
It's getting irritating and I'm not exactly the greatest Linux guy, in fact, I'm rather new to it.

[Zelmo]

Installing a compiler from source is a catch-22, because you'd need a compiler to compile it. Can you get GCC through your package manager instead? If not, grab the deb from packages.debian.org.

[techieMoe]

Do you have a subscription to Linspire's CNR Warehouse? If so, you can download GCC and a number of other developer tools from there with one click. If not, you're going to run into issues installing non-Linspire DEB files on a Linspire system. It will break CNR in some cases.

If you are a subscriber, your best bet is to use CNR. If not, you might consider using a less proprietary version of Debian such as Mepis or Knoppix. Those not only come with GCC preinstalled, you can download most packages straight from the official Debian repository using apt-get.

Also, you're probably better off keeping MS Windows around for gaming. WINE and Cedega (the only two non-virtual-machine options) are spotty at best in their game performance.

[The Almighty Dib]

Do you have a subscription to Linspire's CNR Warehouse? If so, you can download GCC and a number of other developer tools from there with one click. If not, you're going to run into issues installing non-Linspire DEB files on a Linspire system. It will break CNR in some cases.

If you are a subscriber, your best bet is to use CNR. If not, you might consider using a less proprietary version of Debian such as Mepis or Knoppix. Those not only come with GCC preinstalled, you can download most packages straight from the official Debian repository using apt-get.

Also, you're probably better off keeping MS Windows around for gaming. WINE and Cedega (the only two non-virtual-machine options) are spotty at best in their game performance.

Yeah, I learned that using Cedega. It took over an hour to install a 800 MB game on my computer.

Well, I was hoping to tackle programming head on by using Linux, but maybe that wasn't the best idea. I do have a Powermac 8500/120 sitting right next to me... anyway I can mod that to work with Puppy Linux or otherwise?

[techieMoe]

Well, I was hoping to tackle programming head on by using Linux, but maybe that wasn't the best idea. I do have a Powermac 8500/120 sitting right next to me... anyway I can mod that to work with Puppy Linux or otherwise?

Why are you so quick to give up on running Linux on your PC? Do you just not want to get rid of Linspire? It's quite easy to replace one Linux dual-boot setup for another in most cases.

If you *really* want to, you can install pretty much any major version of Linux on the Power Mac (just make sure you get the PowerPC version). I don't think Puppy has one, but I could be mistaken.