Other Help Topics :: Installing "make" for Compiling the Kernel

So I need to do some compiling because I would like to get the newest kernel source files in my DSL install. But I have no "make". Command is not found when I try to run it.

To verify I don't have make on this install I typed "man make". And sure enough here is my output...
The application isn't installed.

So my question is, does anyone know how to get it installed? I have been looking for the last couple days and haven't found anything.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks for your time.

It's included in gcc1-with-libs, which is the essential compiling extension, without it you would not have a compiler either.

You should not use man to see if a program is installed in DSL, DSL uses internet man pages thus finding all pages, not just the ones for installed programs. You probably were offline and that caused the error...

BTW, why would you need make to have only the source around?

Thank for the help first off!

Secondly, it's kind of a long story, but DSL is the only distro I have found to enable me to recompile a kernel for Boothbox. I was unable to get Boothbox to install locally which is how most people have recompiled the Boothbox kernel. See, where I work my boss wants to use Boothbox on Dell's with Broadcom NICs, so I have to update the Boothbox kernel to get this support.

Just to add more confusion......

Be careful if you are compiling the kernel / modules as they are compiled with gcc v2.95 - also available as an extension, but 'make' isn't included in this extension for some reason(?!?) - you still need the gcc1 extension as well - just make sure you use the correct compiler as you will then have 2 installed!. Read the info file for gcc 2.95 (it's a in the UNC extensions section).

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