Trying to compile an application and configure can't find compiler?

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I just installed Mate 16.04 on my laptop. Downloaded a tarball application file. When I go to compile it, I get error message that I interpret as not finding any compilers. Below is error message:

tony@tony-Latitude-D530:~/Downloads/fldigi-4.0.16$ ./configure
checking build system type… x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
checking host system type… x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
checking target system type… x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
checking for a BSD-compatible install… /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane… yes
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p… /bin/mkdir -p
checking for gawk… gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)… yes
checking whether make supports nested variables… yes
checking whether make supports nested variables… (cached) yes
checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles… no
checking for g++… no
checking for c++… no
checking for gpp… no
checking for aCC… no
checking for CC… no
checking for cxx… no
checking for cc++… no
checking for cl.exe… no
checking for FCC… no
checking for KCC… no
checking for RCC… no
checking for xlC_r… no
checking for xlC… no
checking whether the C++ compiler works… no
configure: error: in /home/tony/Downloads/fldigi-4.0.16': configure: error: C++ compiler cannot create executables Seeconfig.log’ for more details

I don’t know what to do to correct this problem.

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sudo apt install build-essential checkinstall

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Hi Tony,

what package is it you wish to install?, there may be a .deb or Snap for it?:

https://pkgs.org/ :smiley:

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I am trying to install fldigi, a ham radio app. I did some more digging and found that the following gets me all the libraries I need:
sudo apt-get build-dep fldigi

Thanks for your help.
Tony W2HWW

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Pavlos

Thank you, that helped solve the problem.

Tony

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