I keep on forgetting this…
apt-get install glibc-doc manpages-dev libc6-dev ncurses-dev gcc
But if you want to use gcc in Debian run above, and it’ll get things going….
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The meta-package build-essential should install anything you need to compile on debian 🙂
I wish the 'meta' package made sense… do you use a meta installer?
Linux was tolerable in the early 90's but it's too confusing for it's own good. SLS was the best.
A meta-package is a package that doesnt provide any files but depends on other packages to make sure they are installed.
That way you don't have to remember every single packet and just tell apt to install build-essential, which will then install g++, libc6-dev, make and they'r depencies.
http://packages.debian.org/lenny/build-essential