Need help in installing 'Development Tools' using 'yum'

I'm currently using Ubuntu 14.04 LTS mainly for neuroimaging use. I need to install a program (see: ) which is requiring me to install 'Development Tools' from CentOS. I was directed to: where I followed the instructions on the page.

However, I find that when I enter

$ yum groupinstall "development tools"
There are no enabled repos.
Run "yum repolist all" to see the repos you have.
You can enable repos with yum-config-manager --enable <repo>

And I get repolist: 0 when I run yum repolist all. When I try to enable repos with the yum-config-manager command, I get You must be root to change the yum configuration.

I'm not sure what I should do at this point? Any help would be much appreciated.

1 Answer

You do not need to download CentOS development tools or yum. If you look at the guide you'll need cvs and ccmake.

To download those, use apt-get. See below:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install cvs cmake-curses-gui

I found both cvs and ccmake applications by searching the cache for the repositories:

1. sudo apt-get update gets the latest version of the applications in the repositories. No need to do this if you've already installed the applications with the command I provided above.
   

2. apt-cache search <package name> to search for a specific application that are available in the repositories you have in your repository list.

See more with man apt-cache and man apt-get.