Unable to compile a simple C program... Please Help!

[Subhankar <edencraze at yahoo dot co dot in>]

I have pasted the source file and the error log below
that contains the error message displayed when I
invoke 'gcc' to compile this file.

sample.c: (source file)

#include <stdio.h>
void main()
{
    printf("Hello World!\n");
}

error log:

Using built-in specs.
Target: i486-linux-gnu
Configured with: ../src/configure -v
--enable-languages=c,c++,fortran,objc,obj-c++,treelang
--prefix=/usr --enable-shared --with-system-zlib
--libexecdir=/usr/lib --without-included-gettext
--enable-threads=posix --enable-nls
--program-suffix=-4.1 --enable-__cxa_atexit
--enable-clocale=gnu --enable-libstdcxx-debug
--enable-mpfr --enable-checking=release i486-linux-gnu
Thread model: posix
gcc version 4.1.2 (Ubuntu 4.1.2-0ubuntu4)
 /usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.1.2/cc1 -E -quiet -v
sample.c -mtune=generic -fpch-preprocess -o sample.i
ignoring nonexistent directory
"/usr/local/include/i486-linux-gnu"
ignoring nonexistent directory
"/usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.1.2/../../../../i486-linux-gnu/include"
ignoring nonexistent directory
"/usr/include/i486-linux-gnu"
#include "..." search starts here:
#include <...> search starts here:
 /usr/local/include
 /usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.1.2/include
 /usr/include
End of search list.
sample.c:1:19: error: stdio.h: No such file or
directory

P.s. I'm a newbie to linux and as such i might not
understand the technical jargons used by you experts.
Please get down to earth to help me out. I'm falling
in love with linux but do not want to disappoint
myself with such troubles.


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