trouble installing

[Shane]

When trying to ./configure I get the following message:

shaneco:~/.opera/cache4/temporary_download/m4-1.4.8# ./configure
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 build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking for gcc... no
checking for cc... no
checking for cl.exe... no
configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH
See `config.log' for more details.

I'm new to Linux and probably doing something wrong.  Could you help me?   
Thank you.


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Shane Fiek
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