I'm trying to install the k3baudiomonkey plugin for the k3b burner so I can burn audio CDs, right? So as root, I go into the untarred folder and run the config script, and I get this:
root@box:/home/stu/k3bmonkeyaudioplugin# ./configure
checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking target system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking for -p flag to install... yes
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for gawk... no
checking for mawk... mawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking for style of include used by make... GNU
checking for gcc... no
checking for cc... no
checking for cc... no
checking for cl... no
configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH
See `config.log' for more details.

No C compiler found, simple enough, I thought. Just get GCC on this bad boy. So I download a GCC compiler, run the config, and get this:
root@box:/home/stu/gcc-3.4.1# ./configure
loading cache ./config.cache
checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking target system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking for a BSD compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
./configure: line 2332: cc: command not found
*** The command 'cc -o conftest -g conftest.c' failed.
*** You must set the environment variable CC to a working compiler

Alright. Strange logic. A C compiler requiring a C compiler to build. After some extensive Googling, I found a forum for a distro called...Blarg, I think, with someone with the same problem (Sorry, can't find a link to the thread), and someone recommended getting a redhat package or something, where they referred to it as requiring a bootstrap compiler.

More googling and no results at all, for linux bootstrap c compiler, bootstrap c compiler, debian c bootstrap, etc. etc. I'm running an HD install of a Knoppix distro, which if I remember is based off Debian, yes? So any help would be much appreciated. I have the feeling I would have some problems installing anything without a C compiler for the build.