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I have recently received quite a good new computer, so with that, I have an old, unused laptop. Considering it's a 1.6GHz processor with 512Mb RAM it's pretty crappy, and not much good for any use with Windows etcetera so I decided to put openSUSE 10.3 GNOME edition on it. openSUSE 10.3 is an extraordinary OS apart from one small flaw, when I attempt to compile something using the 'make' command I get a 'command not found' error.
I have used both xTerm and Gnome Terminal with no success, I have also tried a reinstall with no success. Can anyone help?

You need to install "make" first in your package repository. The Ubuntu and XUbuntu package repositories have an useful metapackage called build-essentials which installs any program needed to compile standard C/C++ code, I'm not sure if OpenSUSE's repositories have a similar package though. If not, make sure to fetch at least "make" and "gcc".

If you have no ideas what I'm talking about, learn what a package manager and a package repository is, first. Also, you didn't forget to ./configure on your source code, right? By far most Linux applications compile using ./configure, then make, and then make install as root...