OK, so this is my first SO question so I'm gonna try my best to lay this out.
I have a Windows 10 laptop on which I am trying to install gcc. I have in the past tried alternatives such as netbeans, cygwin and various emulators and virtual machines all to no avail.
What has been working so far is that I enabled the 'new' windows developer mode which allowed me to download a Linux bash shell from the windows store. It works for all the regular Linux commands, but doesn't have gcc installed.
When I type in gcc (or gcc --version) in the shell, it prints the following line:
The program 'gcc' is currently not installed. You can install it by typing: sudo apt install gcc
Which I tried, it then ran through a bunch of installer stuff but consistently seemed to run into errors such as the following:
Err:7 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/main amd64 libdpkg- >perl all 1.18.4ubuntu1.2
404 Not Found [IP: INSERT IP ADDRESS HERE ]
where the ip address is different on each error line.
It ultimately fails with the following line:
Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with --fix-missing?
I have tried but again I get the same kinds of errors as above.
I would really like to get gcc working in the Windows/Linux shell as it is working great for everything else, and I'm trying to keep the number of programs on my computer to a minimum.
Does anyone know why this isn't working, or how (if possible) I can make it work?
P.S I do need it to be gcc because of school reasons