Linux Install Problem

I'm trying my first install of Oracle8 on Linux. I'm getting the following error(s) consistantly. When I installed Linux, I didn't load the 'make', 'gcc', or 'kernel-headers' packages. I found several copies of 'types.h' on my system. I've tried manually the 'cc -c nocontab.c' command and moving the types.h file but with no sucess. Am I missing a setenv command to point to the head files? Also does the error 'get_platform: No such file or directory' affect anything?

Thanks,

Leonard

Error during action 'Creating ntcontab.o'.                             
                                                                        
Command:  make -f /opt/oracle/product/8/network/lib/ins_network.mk      
ntcontab.o                                                              
                                                                        
(if [ "compile" = "compile" ] ;then \                                   
  /opt/oracle/product/8/bin/gennttab > ntcontab.c ;\                    
  cc  -c ntcontab.c ;\                                                  
  rm -f /opt/oracle/product/8/lib/ntcontab.o ;\                         
  mv ntcontab.o /opt/oracle/product/8/lib ;fi)                          


/opt/oracle/product/8/bin/gennttab:                                     


/opt/oracle/product/8/bin/get_platform: No such file or directory       


ntcontab.c:7: sys/types.h: No such file or directory                    
mv: ntcontab.o: No such file or directory