installing python2.4.1

[TPJ]

There are two things I don't like about messages you got.

>  checking for g++ ... no

and

>  C++ compiler cannot create executables

There are two possibilities I can think of now. The first is you have
no g++ installed. In this case you should install it (I think it would
be very easy, you could install it from the proper deb package).

The second is there is a working g++, but ./configure fails to detect
it.

BTW: Have you tried to compile a simple C program by yourself?