Anyone with experience installing Nginx in a Vyatta firewall box (Debian 4.2.3-2)

[Tom Keyser]

Running
Linux version 2.6.26-1-486-vyatta (root at vyatta) (gcc version 4.2.3 (Debian 4.2.3-2)
Its a Vyatta 5 firewall box

Having problems installing Nginx.

./configure: error: C compiler gcc is not found
problem is cant find gcc to install

MY SOURCES.LIST
deb http://packages.vyatta.com/vyatta stable main # community #
deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main

Any assistance is appreciated. I am new to debian. I am used to centos

thanks