Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 08:25:51 -0500 From: Nikolas Britton <nikolas.britton@gmail.com> To: Aaron Peterson <dopplecoder@gmail.com> Cc: tg webb <gordetta@math1.wanadoo.co.uk>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: simple (very) Bash problem Message-ID: <ef10de9a05081206254ead9c83@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <45d750d205081204513d85e3ea@mail.gmail.com> References: <200508121136.39677.gordetta@math1.wanadoo.co.uk> <45d750d205081204513d85e3ea@mail.gmail.com>
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On 8/12/05, Aaron Peterson <dopplecoder@gmail.com> wrote: > On 8/12/05, tg webb <gordetta@math1.wanadoo.co.uk> wrote: > > In SuSe 9.1 and in the shell, Bash works fine until I attempt "make". = It > > responds with unknown command. I know I'm missing something obvious bu= t > > what? Any help gratefully received >=20 > It's a mystery why you're asking about SuSe here, but the obvious > answer could be that "make" doesn't exist on that system. Lots of > Linux distributions that are binary package based (RPM, etc) don't > install a development environment by default. I don't know how people > survive in a world without make, but apparently some do. >=20 Yea I was a bit confused as to what he wanted help with... by default SuSE does not install development packages of any kind, I had to go search around in YaST2's package manager for KDE's Quanta Plus the other day... If it won't install a simple html editor when you do a default install you can forget about make.
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