[Ilugc] Re: HELP!!!!

[ananth_g at sifycorp.com]

suse dosent come with gcc. its for desktop use and no development can be 
done with it , except for perl. it dosent even have make and other 
required build tools. u have to download the required development tools 
from the net and use it with SUSE. i tried suse but it dosent have any 
tools for development ( i.e. with the distro) so ive switched to slack 9
regrds,
ananth.g

Chandrashekar Babu wrote:

> chandra sekar writes:
>
>>     iam chandra sekar and iam new to this lidt.i installed Suse 
>> personal edition 9.0 on my
>> system.i could not open gcc and i have no idea where to start 
>> learning linux.can somebody help me out with regard to this? pls HELP!!
>
>
> Is gcc installed on your machine ? Try typing 'gcc' at your shell 
> prompt and check if you get a message like 'gcc: no input files'. 
> There are many ways to start learning linux. Here are some tips:
>
> 1. Buy a good book on Linux. There are many books that can get you 
> introduced to Linux.
> 2. Browse through documentation available on http://www.tldp.org/. 
> Though the site is vast, you can select specific topics that interests 
> you.
> 3. There's an excellent online guide to Linux. Check the URL: 
> http://www.icon.co.za/~psheer/book/index.html.gz
>
> 4. Socialize with people who use Linux (LUGs for instance).
> 5. Google!
>
>
> Cheers,
> Chandrashekar Babu.
>
>
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