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I've got user account on some strange server running Ubuntu. I do not have root access, so all solutions including sudo apt-get install <package> will not work. For some reason on server there is no make nor any C compiler, which prevents it from being usefull in any way.

Without the possibility of using package manager, I've tried to install make from the source, but I failed.

My problem is: Installation of make requires C compiler (eg. gcc), but installing gcc from source requires not only gcc (which can be worked around - as shown here), but also make, which closes the circle.

At this point I gave up and tried to get binary version of make, but I couldn't find it. The same was with gcc - all I could find were tarballs containing the source.

It's the list of possible solutions, I can think of:

  1. Page with binary of make.
  2. Page with working binary of gcc or any other C compiler.
  3. Or some way to install one of these from the source, with earlier listed restrictions.
  4. Some other way?
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  • Do you have a C compiler at all? – Ed Heal Jan 01 '17 at 03:03
  • Consider installing a gcc binary. – fuz Jan 01 '17 at 03:05
  • No - if i had any, there wouldn't be problem with installation of make. – Tomasz Czarkowski Jan 01 '17 at 03:05
  • It#s tricky. Did you try the options described in this, admittedly quite old, post here: http://askubuntu.com/questions/339/how-can-i-install-a-package-without-root-access ? – deamentiaemundi Jan 01 '17 at 03:10
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    Maybe the owners of the strange server won't be happy with you for putting development tools on their server — they may have deliberately ensured there was no development code on it. There are bound to be precompiled versions of the tools available. Failing that, create yourself a virtual machine image on a machine of your own with the correct version of Ubuntu, and install what you need on there, and then compile and install materials on the VM and copy to the server for installation. – Jonathan Leffler Jan 01 '17 at 03:19
  • Also note that current versions of GCC require G++ or other standard C++ compiler to bootstrap — not just a C compiler any more. – Jonathan Leffler Jan 01 '17 at 03:20
  • I see that TCC (http://www.tinycc.org/) is in the Ubuntu repository. It needs only libc-dev which is just the headers of the installed LibC version. If TCC compiles `make` or even `GCC` is a different question. – deamentiaemundi Jan 01 '17 at 03:20
  • You can get `gcc` from [www.mingw.org](http://www.mingw.org/). – RoadRunner Jan 01 '17 at 03:31
  • I don't have time to research further, but one time I built all of gcc just running `make bootstrap` from the gcc src dir. It might still work. Good luck. – shellter Jan 01 '17 at 04:00
  • Bring binaries to that host. You may setup virtual environment on your side with the same version of OS and copy binaries from it to remote server. (Since you have no root access, under **binaries** I can consider BuildRoot in your home) – 0andriy Jan 01 '17 at 08:41
  • This is not about programming within the rules of this site, but general software/system management. – too honest for this site Jan 01 '17 at 10:30
  • @shellter: How would that work if you don't have `make` available? – too honest for this site Jan 01 '17 at 10:31
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    Have you contacted the admin of the server to explain what it is you're trying to do? Technical solutions to social problems are bad in general. – Kusalananda Jan 01 '17 at 11:42
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