package nvidia-current 195.36.24-0ubuntu1~10.04 failed to install/upgrade: gcc not installed

[rdfry]

ubuntu 10.04.1

nvidia driver

It crashed with error upon installation

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: nvidia-current 195.36.24-0ubuntu1~10.04
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-24.39-generic 2.6.32.15+drm33.5
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-24-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Oct 30 17:31:15 2010
DkmsStatus: nvidia-current, 195.36.24: added
ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 10
GdmLog1: Error: command ['cat', '/var/log/gdm/:0.log.1'] failed with exit code 1: cat: /var/log/gdm/:0.log.1: No such file or directory
GdmLog2: Error: command ['cat', '/var/log/gdm/:0.log.2'] failed with exit code 1: cat: /var/log/gdm/:0.log.2: No such file or directory
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100816.1)
MachineType: MSI MS-7366
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-24-generic root=UUID=56c3e2fa-b57a-4fb0-8ba2-8f201eec763a ro quiet splash
SourcePackage: nvidia-graphics-drivers
Title: package nvidia-current 195.36.24-0ubuntu1~10.04 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 10
dmi.bios.date: 10/25/2007
dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
dmi.bios.version: V2.0
dmi.board.asset.tag: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
dmi.board.name: MS-7366
dmi.board.vendor: MSI
dmi.board.version: 1.0
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.chassis.vendor: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
dmi.chassis.version: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvrV2.0:bd10/25/2007:svnMSI:pnMS-7366:pvr1.0:rvnMSI:rnMS-7366:rvr1.0:cvnToBeFilledByO.E.M.:ct3:cvrToBeFilledByO.E.M.:
dmi.product.name: MS-7366
dmi.product.version: 1.0
dmi.sys.vendor: MSI
system:
 distro: Ubuntu
 codename: lucid
 architecture: i686
 kernel: 2.6.32-24-generic

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

Weird, looks like you didn't have gcc installed for some reason, so it couldn't build the kernel driver:

DKMS make.log for nvidia-current-195.36.24 for kernel 2.6.32-24-generic (i686)
Sat Oct 30 17:31:11 EDT 2010

The C compiler 'cc' does not appear to be able to
create executables. Please make sure you have
your Linux distribution's gcc and libc development
packages installed.

*** Failed CC sanity check. Bailing out! ***

make: *** [select_makefile] Error 1

Did you end up finding a way to work around this? Or, do you have additional information as to why gcc would not have been present?

Since it appears to be a build system issue I'm bumping this bug to dkms.

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