Re: Compile broken after upgrading to Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
- Posted by jimcbrown (admin) Aug 30, 2019
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Pirx said...
Also, GCC alone wouldn't be enough - you need to install a lot more to be able to compile stuff. That's why having something like build-essential is a pretty good idea.
They could make a GCC package alias so that it automatically tries to install build-essential if one tries to install gcc - that probably does the right thing most of the time.
Alternatively, they could go a little bit softer and say "gcc not found - suggested: did you mean to try apt install build-essentials"
Just saying GCC not found without any additional hints is not very user friendly.