I am having trouble trouble finding an installed by default compiler on Fedora18. Where is it?If strangely no compiler is included in the core distribution, is there a preferred compiler for casual users, needing to compile a package from source?
Which is the default/prefered compiler in F18?
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The native C compiler (meaning, the compiler used to compile the system) on all GNU/Linux systems including any version of fedora is gcc.It is not necessarily installed by default, however, because a pre-compiled (binary distro) system does not need one to install or function.yum install gcc should get you what you are after.  If you are building from source tarballs put together with autotools (configure, make, install), you'll also want tar and make, obviously.So at minimum, either as root or sudo:yum install gcc tar makeA lot of packages will require more than this; eg. if there are C++ parts, you'd also need a C++ compiler (on fedora, the gcc-c++ package).Thanks to jordanm for pointing out a group install:yum groupinstall Development ToolsAgain, keep in mind it is not really possible to cover everything that could possibly be needed for any package, but hopefully the configure script provides helpful clues when something is missing.