XFCE 5 & build-essentials

[DapperMe17]

Is there any way to install build-essential via the Mint live CD?

I have noticed that build-essential is not part of the XFCE distro, while it is part of Gnome & KDE.

With wireless issues, I think that this package is essential to the live CD.

[Fornhamfred]

Go to the mint menu, system and synaptic. Search for build-essential and select to install. I have tried it on my system and it seems to install but you will need to run it from the terminal.

[DapperMe17]

Thanks for your reply.

I tried to add build-essential through the edit menu of synaptic, the running sudo apt-get install build-essential from the terminal. Unfortunately, it still tried to download from the internet.

In this application, there is no way to string a wired connection to the machine.

I decided to give Xubuntu a whirl, as I remember with Ubuntu that adding from the LiveCD was possible. I followed the same procedure as above, & when I ran sudo apt-get install build-essential from the terminal, build-essential was installed from the disk.

I would think that this is possible from Mint as well, but who knows...

[merlwiz79]

No we don't have a repository on the disk.

[mul14]

Can u add build-essentials in the next version of LinuxMint?
Not everybody had internet connection..

Sorry bad english...