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I want to start this off by mentioning that I am very new to using Linux, so I'm having a pretty hard time figuring this one out on my own.

Version: Ubuntu Desktop 18.04

I went out and bought a wireless card for this PC so that I can connect to my home internet, however the card will not just "Plug-and-Play." I did some searching online and came across some drivers as well as instructions for installing them via USB, but I seem to have run into an issue. The instructions state that I need to use commands such as "make", Running the make command in the terminal returns the following:

Command 'make' not found, but it can be installed with:
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sudo apt install make
sudo apt install make-guile

and running sudo apt install make returns:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package make is not available, but is referred to by another package.
this may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or is only available from another source
E: Package 'make' has no installation candidate

I can imagine I'd get this error for all other commands I try to run.

If it helps at all, I'm trying to follow instructions found here to install these drivers. I then did some searching online trying to find a way to get the 'make' command, but pretty much everything says that I will have to connect the machine in question to the internet. I'm looking for a way to either get the make command (and other commands that I will need for installing drivers) onto this PC, or a way to install drivers without using these commands.

Anything I put onto the machine will be coming from a Windows laptop to the Ubuntu machine via a flash drive. Again, I want to say, it is not possible for me to use an Ethernet connection at this time. Thanks in advance for any help you all provide :)

Nathan Carrell
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You can install the tools needed to build that driver by using:

sudo apt install build-essential

This will install make and a C++ compiler.

Kristopher Ives
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There are a few options from using an offline repository/package manager to burning a set of DVD/USB images with the packages you need. Regardless of the approach, either you will need access to an Internet connected machine or find someone who can do this for you to actually get the packages you need and any dependencies (there will be quite a few for the development tools.) See How can I install software or packages without Internet (offline)? for more information on how to do this.

blihp
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