Christoph Hormann wrote:
> That does not make much sense - building from source on Linux is not
> much more difficult than installing a binary.  And it will run on all
> hardware while a binary will only run on what it is actually compiled
> for.

This is true only if you have the compiler and build tools installed, 
and even then it still is not guaranteed to build without some degree of 
tinkering.  Most recent distributions won't install the development 
packages by default as most users won't need them (being a binary 
distribution), although installing them is usually a fairly simple matter.

Which Linux distribution are you using Greg?  Do you have a compiler 
installed (you can find out by typing "gcc -v" on a shell prompt)?

Peter D.

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