What's an OS Without Tools?


Forum: User Feedback
Topic: What's an OS Without Tools?
started by: JBHoren

Posted by JBHoren on June 27 2006,02:29
Shalom!

OK, I installed DSL-3.0.1 on my Toshiba Satellite 2540cds -- AMD K6-II/333 with 96MB RAM (soon to be 160MB) and 4.3GB hard drive.  Great!  JWM is very close to my favorite FVWM95 window manager.  All-in-all, some nice features.

However...  it ain't an OS without a compiler and tools!!  I used apt-get to fetch and install gcc (v2.95, surprisingly; I'd expected v3.3).  But after a painstaking configuration of the Linux 2.4.32 kernel, I couldn't compile it, because there's no !@#$% "make" command!!!

OK, I'm smarter than the average bear, so another apt-get install, this time for the missing "make".  BEEP... wrong answer.  There's a conflict between the version of "chgrp" installed (v5.0) and that of the fileutils package which apt-get wants to install along with 'lil 'ol "make".  Sheesh!

Yah, so DSL is based on Knoppix v5... but apt-get doesn't go to any Knoppix repository to download its packages... it heads right for a Debian mirror.

Any suggestions (besides making sure that I apply the Knoppix kernel patch before reconfiguring and compiling)?  Perhaps I should just install Knoppix??

TIA!

Posted by Zucca on June 27 2006,03:02
I didn't have any problems compiling other apps. I just installed gcc from MyDSL...
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