You are here
Roman Budzianowski - Thu, 2009/12/03 - 01:40
I installed LAMP on vmware server 1.06 virtual machine with intention of running plone on it. There is no gcc installed however. I am not familiar with Ubuntu. Webmin doesn't seem to help. Can somebody tell me how to install gcc? Thank you.
I managed to install build-essential, which installed gcc, but I was surprised that apt-get repositories were not set up. Is it assumed that no software is installed on an appliance? I couldn't find an editor - is there a detailed list of software included in the appliance? What's the typical usage scenario? If you charge $5/month for EC2 deployment, for which I signed up shouldn't you include some rudimentary documentation?
Forum:
Install build-essential
Doesn't work out of the box
I had to create the file: /etc/apt/sources.list. Then I had to run apt-get update. Then the command worked.
You didn't need to to create the sources.list
You are right about apt-get update though. Maybe we should find a place to document that. Better yet we'll patch the appliance so that the next release runs "apt-get update" on first boot.
Sorry I imagine this can be a bit confusing to someone who isn't familiar with Debian / Ubuntu.
Added documentation
Roman, you've inspired me to add a page on "Installing additional software via APT" to the documentation. Thanks for the feedback!
Add new comment