[gmx-users] installation problem

[Mark Abraham]

Rafael Real Guerra wrote:
> Hi
> 
> Well, let’s start saying that I’m new at Linux and I’m trying to start 
> on Gromacs as well.
> 
> I’ve been trying to install Gromacs 4.0 in my computer (laptop ACER 
> Aspire 4530, AMD Athlon 64X2) running Mandriva 2009 and I just got stuck 
> at the very beginning.

4.0 is several months out of date already. Try 4.0.3 :-)

As Justin said, your issue is that you need a C compiler, as described 
here http://www.gromacs.org/content/view/23/33/. For your platform, a 
Fortran compiler is a needless complication.

Mark