Problem installing GTK2 engine (Aurora 1.4)

[sh_son]

It's been a while since I reinstalled Ubuntu because of complexity in installing various programs and errors I got from the terminal.
Anyway, I am back to Ubuntu - I just like the desktop effects!

So, I have a problem installing Aurora v1.4 GTK2 engine.
This is output from the terminal while I followed installation instruction from :: http://phorolinux.com/how-to-install...sy-gibbon.html

My Linux distro is; Linux Ubuntu 8.10 Hardy (i386, x86, Intel.)

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root@klarhaus-laptop:~/Desktop/build-essential-11.3ubuntu1# cd
root@klarhaus-laptop:~# cd Desktop/aurora-1.4
root@klarhaus-laptop:~/Desktop/aurora-1.4# ./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-animation
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p
checking for gawk... no
checking for mawk... mawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name...
configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables
See `config.log' for more details.
root@klarhaus-laptop:~/Desktop/aurora-1.4#
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It seems that 'C Compiler' is not installed, I googled around and tried to install 'build-essential' through the Synaptic manager but did not find it in there.

I have a limited internet connection, I'm a boarder from a school and the school has a proxy server + domain blocking filtering system.

Anyone can get me install the 'build-essential' package? or even manually by obtaining that source package and installing it through the terminal?

Thank you in Advance,
- Eric.

[rainwalker]

http://download.opensuse.org/reposit...1nano_i386.deb

There's a .deb