Hello. After doing a fresh install of lysistrata 7.01 on my new laptop, I decided to install vice 1.19 from the repo. I launched it from wterm and got the infamous (commodore) kernel error. Since I have installed vice from source successfully many times, I decided to try it. Here's my odyssey so far:

1. Did"dpkg -r vice". Installed the dependency libxaw7-dev and tried to compile vice from source. Got an error.
2. Did something like"aptitude -remove --purge vice". Still got compiler errors.
3. Reinstalled lysistrata - keeping /home intact - but got compiler errors.
4. Tried and successfully installed vice from source on my older laptop running 7.0.
5. Decided that the only difference between the boxes was that the older box uses init.rd, I decided to modify the grub of the new laptop. Still got errors.
6. Backed up /home and reinstalled - this time formatting home. Got this compiler error:

checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking build system type... i686-pc-linuxlibc1
checking host system type... i686-pc-linuxlibc1
no explicit checking for XFree86 fullscreen requested, disabling fullscreen...
using TextField widget.
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name... configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables
See `config.log' for more details.

I know I can compile on the newer laptop since I compiled tkdgen from source. Why can't I compile vice? I gotta have vice. Any ideas? Thanks.

john

I am so sorry. Apparently I installed build-essential on the old laptop. After time I had forgotten this fact and so assumed it was part of the lysistrata iso. __{{emoticon}}__

john