title: pycrypto on Ubuntu giving compiler error
body: <p>I am trying to install pycrypto2.6 on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ubuntu_releases#Ubuntu_10.04_LTS_.28Lucid_Lynx.29" rel="noreferrer">Ubuntu&nbsp;10.04</a> (Lucid Lynx)  with Python 2.7.3.</p>
  
  <p>I am encountering the following error:</p>
  
  <pre><code>running build
  running build_py
  running build_ext
  running build_configure
  checking for gcc... no
  checking for cc... no
  checking for cl.exe... no
  configure: error: in `/home/pratibha/Desktop/pycrypto-2.6':
  configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH
  See `config.log' for more details
  Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "setup.py", line 456, in &lt;module&gt;
  core.setup(**kw)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/distutils/core.py", line 152, in setup
  dist.run_commands()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/distutils/dist.py", line 953, in run_commands
  self.run_command(cmd)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/distutils/dist.py", line 972, in run_command
  cmd_obj.run()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/distutils/command/build.py", line 127, in run
  self.run_command(cmd_name)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/distutils/cmd.py", line 326, in run_command
  self.distribution.run_command(command)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/distutils/dist.py", line 972, in run_command
  cmd_obj.run()
  File "setup.py", line 251, in run
  self.run_command(cmd_name)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/distutils/cmd.py", line 326, in run_command
  self.distribution.run_command(command)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/distutils/dist.py", line 972, in run_command
  cmd_obj.run()
  File "setup.py", line 278, in run
  raise RuntimeError("autoconf error")
  RuntimeError: autoconf error
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I checked Software Centre, and I have GCC installed on my system, but the "which gcc" command is not returning any path.</p>
  
  <p>I got it by creating the symbolic link:</p>
  
  <pre><code>ln -s /usr/bin/gcc-4.4 /usr/bin/gcc
  </code></pre>