I in a catch-22 situation. I'm away from home in a hotel room with only WiFi [no RJ45 to plug into]. I brought a LUbuntu [14.10] installation disk and figured I would use this opportunity to get my laptop setup. It never occurred to me that the hotel room with be void of a wired connection!
I'm here with my wife, and have occasional access to my wife's Win 8 laptop so I can use it's wireless connection to download files, so I acquired the following, and transferred then to my laptop using a USB Flash Drive:
When I attempted to install them, I soon discovered that I needed gcc to compile them, which is absent from my Linux installation. Then I discovered that without the ability to use apt-get to acquire all the files needed to build and install gcc ['cuz my laptop has no internet connection], the task is a veritable nightmare of dependency upon dependency!!!
Does anyone have an idea of how I can to this? I looked for a gcc binary, but found none. Is there, perhaps, a friendly [apt-get-ish] way to use Win8 to collect the required gcc source files so I can move them over to my Linux laptop? Or is there a place that I can acquire a tar of ALL the files needed to build gcc?
I'm here with my wife, and have occasional access to my wife's Win 8 laptop so I can use it's wireless connection to download files, so I acquired the following, and transferred then to my laptop using a USB Flash Drive:
- dkms_2.2.0.3-1.1buntu_all.deb
- gksu_2.0.2-6ubuntu2_amd64.deb
- libgksu2-0_2.0.13~pre1-6ubuntu4_amd64.deb
- ndisgtk_0.8.5-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb
- ndiswrapper-common_1.59-2_all.deb
- ndiswrapper-dkms_1.59-2_all.deb
- ndiswrapper-utils-1.9_1.59-2_amf64.deb
When I attempted to install them, I soon discovered that I needed gcc to compile them, which is absent from my Linux installation. Then I discovered that without the ability to use apt-get to acquire all the files needed to build and install gcc ['cuz my laptop has no internet connection], the task is a veritable nightmare of dependency upon dependency!!!
Does anyone have an idea of how I can to this? I looked for a gcc binary, but found none. Is there, perhaps, a friendly [apt-get-ish] way to use Win8 to collect the required gcc source files so I can move them over to my Linux laptop? Or is there a place that I can acquire a tar of ALL the files needed to build gcc?
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