Unable to Make on openSuse Live CD Installation

[rajasekharan]

Hi,

I installed openSuse from the live boot CD. I am not able to run 'make' on any software in the command line. It says make is not found, so is gcc.

How do I install packages? How do I 'make' them?

[Kieren]

Unless you have a particular reason to compile your own software you should use a package manager to install software.

To install software using a package manager open up YaST and under the Software tab select Software Management. You can then select the software you want to install.

[rajasekharan]

Yes, I am trying to install my Atheros wireless enthernet card's driver - Madwifi (madwifi.org - Trac). They don't give any RPMs to install drivers (i doubt that makes sense at all ) Any ideas?

[Kieren]

That make sense. Try installing gcc and make using the package manager then try compiling again

[rajasekharan]

I am not able to find make in the list of packages. I am getting something else. [Attached Makeshot.jpg]

Apparently GCC is already installed but i still get command not found for gcc in terminal.[Attached gccshots.jpg, gccmakeshot.jpg]

Also attached is a list of applications in my /bin directory

[gogalthorp]

It does not look like you have gcc installed you do have several associated packages. What repositories are you connected to? The standard opensuse repositories should have gcc also if you installed from the DVD gcc should be there. If from a CD it seems that gcc is not available from it.

The gcc package is just gcc nothing else.

[rajasekharan]

That's the problem, I cannot connect to the Internet without the ethernet card driver, which we're trying to install. I installed from the LIVE CD distrub. As it turns out, the CD doesnt have GCC or Make.

Any ideas on how to install gcc/make?

[Kieren]

You could try downloading the rpm from RPM resource gcc but there may be a problem with dependencies as you don't have a network connection.

Alternatively could you download OpenSUSE on DVD? Does the computer have a DVD drive?