Okay, throwing this out here randomly, because other places I've checked were way too confusing for me at this point in time.
This morning I installed Ubuntu using WUBI (but I'm currently in the process of partitioning my HDD to give me a 50GB partition to install Ubuntu on to regularly, but I don't think that'll make much difference). I discovered that Ubuntu (64 bit version) doesn't like my sound card, an X-Fi Xtremegamer from Creative. I downloaded the beta driver from the Creative site, and it was a tar.gz. Package manager wouldn't touch it. I extracted it, found a tar.bz2, package manager still wouldn't touch it. I tried using the terminal to run the install file in the tar.gz, and after some shuffling, managed to get it to ask me if I accept the licence agreement, etc and then got this:
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name... configure:error: C compiler cannot create executables
Then it stopped and said installation failed. As I have no sound right now, it's rather depressing. So if anyone knows what I'm doing wrong, or a different way to do it, I'd be most grateful.
This morning I installed Ubuntu using WUBI (but I'm currently in the process of partitioning my HDD to give me a 50GB partition to install Ubuntu on to regularly, but I don't think that'll make much difference). I discovered that Ubuntu (64 bit version) doesn't like my sound card, an X-Fi Xtremegamer from Creative. I downloaded the beta driver from the Creative site, and it was a tar.gz. Package manager wouldn't touch it. I extracted it, found a tar.bz2, package manager still wouldn't touch it. I tried using the terminal to run the install file in the tar.gz, and after some shuffling, managed to get it to ask me if I accept the licence agreement, etc and then got this:
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name... configure:error: C compiler cannot create executables
Then it stopped and said installation failed. As I have no sound right now, it's rather depressing. So if anyone knows what I'm doing wrong, or a different way to do it, I'd be most grateful.
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