Installing a C compiler (GCC)

[NeoSilverDagger]

Recently after many months of constant Windows problems I decided to do the full upgrade to Linux and roger off Windows for once and for all... Sadly as I am posting in this part of the forum it is quite obvious I am a bit of a n00b...

Anywho... After installing my n00b friendly distro of Morphix I decided that I should install a few more programs, but whenever I try to install a program, I extract the source, use "su" to change to the root user in the command line terminal, after which I change directory to where the source was extracted and type "./configure"

The typical response is this...
checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnuoldld
checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnuoldld
checking for gcc... no
checking for cc... no
checking for cc... no
checking for cl... no
configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH
See `config.log' for more details.

Here is a copy of the config.log

Now due to this I was thinking that I should try and install an "acceptable C compiler". Which did I decide I should install? Quite obviously GCC. Hoping for the best I downloaded the source, extracted it to a folder and did my usual thing, to which the response was...
loading cache ./config.cache
checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnuoldld
checking target system type... i686-pc-linux-gnuoldld
checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnuoldld
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

Now I have tried other means of installing programs (and have also read the How to install Linux software many times), I have tried the Synaptic Package Manager (will not install the packages) and my distro doesn't have RPM support (which I also can't install the source to obtain it). The only thing that works is Autopackages, but they are few and far between... Can somebody help me install GCC or am I forced to change distro's?

[daark.child]

I think Morphix is based on Debian, so fire up a terminal emulator such as konsole or gnome-terminal and do

#apt-get update
#apt-get install gcc