installing scribus

I recently downloaded scribus for ubuntu.
I have extracted the .tar file and have listened to the instructions.
I typed ./configure and it says this

nicholas@USS-Enterprise:/media/disk/scribus-1.3.3$ ./configure
checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnulibc1
checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnulibc1
checking target system type... i686-pc-linux-gnulibc1
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking for -p flag to install... yes
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for gawk... no
checking for mawk... mawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
not using lib directory suffix
checking for extra includes... no
checking for extra libs... no
checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config
checking for style of include used by make... GNU
checking for g++... no
checking for c++... no
checking for gpp... no
checking for aCC... no
checking for CC... no
checking for cxx... no
checking for cc++... no
checking for cl... no
checking for FCC... no
checking for KCC... no
checking for RCC... no
checking for xlC_r... no
checking for xlC... no
checking for C++ compiler default output file name... configure: error: C++ compiler cannot create executables
See `config.log' for more details.

Does this mean I can't compile it?
I also typed in make to compile it bit it just says

nicholas@USS-Enterprise:/media/disk/scribus-1.3.3$ make
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.
nicholas@USS-Enterprise:/media/disk/scribus-1.3.3$

Do I need a compiler?
Any help will be appriciated