AWS EC2 and build-essential

Question

I am trying to compile Node.js on Amazon EC2, but I can't even install "build essential". Where's the problem?

Thanks.

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sudo yum install build-essential
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No package build-essential available.
Error: Nothing to do

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./configure
Checking for program g++ or c++          : not found 
Checking for program icpc                : not found 
Checking for program c++                 : not found 
error: could not configure a cxx compiler!

could not configure a cxx compiler!

Answer 1

build-essential is a package that resides in aptitude (Debian), not in Yum (RHEL). Maybe you should rephrase your question to provide more information about the core issue--i.e., installing EC2 tools?

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The (rough) equivalent of the build-essential meta-package for yum is:

yum install make glibc-devel gcc patch

Answer 2

Its important enough to make this more complete alternative a separate entry:

yum groupinstall "Development Tools"

Answer 3

I'm assuming that you are building node.js, as I had the same problem. I think the one you are missing is:

yum install gcc-c++

But you might need more than that one after you get past the first part.

Answer 4

In addition to gcc-c++, I also needed to install the development packages for openssl:

yum install openssl-devel

After that was installed I could then compile and install node.js successfully per http://nodejs.org/#download