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I am not familiar with Gnome and I was wondering if there was package containing essential files for installing something from source available.
I installed nitrogen yesterday but it was a long haul and I am sure I downloaded far too much stuff.
Is there something like Debian's build-essential?
Or could someone tell me what I need?
Thanks

Yep, what you want is probably task-c-devel or task-c++-devel which roughly equals build-essentials.

Thanks