wu-ftp install problems / questions

"Dominick Diorio" <[email protected]> Wed, 30 Mar 2005 12:37:51 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.network.ftp.wuftpd.user
Message-ID <000801c5354f$335eb360$818baf0a@DDIORIO2K>
Hi ,
I am trying to install wu-ftp on a  linux system . I get an error "configure:1401: error: no acceptable cc found in $PATH" 
, I am new at this and donot understand  the error . Can you help?? 
Thanks
Dominick
email [email protected]