Comment 4 for bug 79418

Excellent link. I'll build a package CD and include it with the standard installation CD. Thanks!

  (no, build-essential is not on the install CD)

Emmanuel Touzery <email address hidden> wrote:
  >you are wrong in your assertion that Ubuntu
>allows you to compile hello.c with nothing more than
>installing a few packages. There is nothing in the
>standard packages that includes build-essential. Try
>it: Do a fresh installation on a clean machine and,
>without using the sudo apt-get, try to compile
>hello.c. You will not be able to.

you can compile hello.c with nothing more than installing a few
packages. running sudo apt-get IS installing a few packages.

if build-essential is not in the ubuntu install CD (is it not?), you could use this trick:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/PackageCDs

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Standard installation does not produce a working environment
https://launchpad.net/bugs/79418

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