How To Install Make

[phaserwarrior]

Another n00by question from me: How can I install "MAKE"?

I am running DSL on a 8-year-old Micron laptop with about 6GB HD and 180 ram.

I tried with make v3.81:

cd /mnt/sdb1/
tar -xvf make.tar.gz

and it shows:

tar: This does not look like a tar archive
tar: Skipping to next header
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

Obviously, MAKE is not installed.

Can anyone tell me what is wrong?

Thanks.

[w3tw3r3]

try 'tar -zxf make.tar.gz'

it has to be filtered though unzip thus the z option

[devils casper]

make and other necessary packages required to build other packages are available in build-essential package. Install 'build-essential' through Package Manager.

[phaserwarrior]

I tried:

dpkg --install build.deb

but it said:

bash: dpkg: command not found

I found the dpkg package, but it is a .deb too. What should I do now?

[devils casper]

Are you logged in as root? You must be root to install/remove any package. Execute 'su' command to gain root privileges.

[phaserwarrior]

I'm definately root.

(I tried su, but it got me nowhere)

[phaserwarrior]

Nevermind, I got it.

I did MyDSL -> Load Local