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Installing gcc - need help

Ok, so I've been trying to install several programs lately and they all give me an

Code:

error: C compiler cannot create executables

I downloaded the gcc package from the debian site ( http://packages.debian.org/etch/gcc ) and I don't know how to install it. There's no configure program, and nothing else that means anything to me. This is all that's in the file:

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/gcc-defaults-1.50# dir

c89    c99    classpath.security  gfdl.7  sparc-g++.c

c89.1  c99.1  debian              gpl.7  sparc-gcc.c

/gcc-defaults-1.50# dir debian

changelog        g77.postinst.in      gpc.prerm

chill.substvars  g77.prerm            g++.postinst.in

compat            gcc-doc.postinst      g++.prerm

control          gcc-doc.prerm        lib32gcj-bc.overrides

control.doc      gcc.postinst.in      libgcj-bc.overrides

copyright        gcc.preinst          libgcj-common.postinst

cpp-doc.postinst  gcc.prerm            libgcj-common.prerm

cpp-doc.prerm    gfortran.postinst.in  README.Debian

cpp.postinst      gfortran.prerm        README.Debian.m4

cpp.prerm        gij.prerm            rebuild-gcj-db

disable_64_gcc    gpc-doc.postinst      rebuild-security-providers

g77-doc.postinst  gpc-doc.prerm        rules

g77-doc.prerm    gpc.postinst

How do I install this? Also, what dir are you supposed to install these types of system files in?

try using aptitude or use apt-get install packagename or
dpkg -i name.deb

I've tried that, but I always get this error:

Code:

# apt-get install gcc

Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree... Done

gcc is already the newest version.

0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded.

1 not fully installed or removed.

Need to get 0B of archives.

After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used.

Setting up lighttpd (1.4.13-4etch4) ...

Starting web server: lighttpd failed!

invoke-rc.d: initscript lighttpd, action "start" failed.

dpkg: error processing lighttpd (--configure):

 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1

Errors were encountered while processing:

 lighttpd

E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

How do I fix this?

Bump - need help now fixing lighttpd too. I need to get my C compiler working before i can install almost anything. Can someone help?

Bump - need to get C compiler installed

symlink to installed version of GNU C compiler

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jinouchi (Post 3075206)

Bump - need to get C compiler installed

If you're using gcc-2.96

Code:

ln -s /usr/bin/gcc-2.96 /usr/bin/gcc

Quote:

Originally Posted by gr8scot (Post 3095189)

If you're using gcc-2.96

Code:

ln -s /usr/bin/gcc-2.96 /usr/bin/gcc

Well, I tried that, and it worked, but then I had to reformat my drive and reinstall Debian, and now it won't work. I try to install Wine and here's what appears to be the applicable part of the config.log:

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configure:2588: $? = 0

configure:2595: gcc -v >&5

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 --with-tune=i686 --enable-checking=release i486-linux-gnu

Thread model: posix

gcc version 4.1.2 20061115 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-21)

configure:2598: $? = 0

configure:2605: gcc -V >&5

gcc: '-V' option must have argument

configure:2608: $? = 1

configure:2631: checking for C compiler default output file name

configure:2658: gcc    conftest.c  >&5

/usr/bin/ld: crt1.o: No such file: No such file or directory

collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

configure:2661: $? = 1

configure:2699: result:

configure: failed program was:

| /* confdefs.h.  */

| #define PACKAGE_NAME "Wine"

| #define PACKAGE_TARNAME "wine"

| #define PACKAGE_VERSION "0.9.59"

| #define PACKAGE_STRING "Wine 0.9.59"

| #define PACKAGE_BUGREPORT "wine-devel@winehq.org"

| /* end confdefs.h.  */

|

| int

| main ()

| {

|

|  ;

|  return 0;

| }

configure:2706: error: C compiler cannot create executables

See `config.log' for more details.

Looks to my n00bie eyes like a file called crt1.o is missing. Am I correct, and how do I fix this?

I'm not familiar with debian, though I came across the same problem with Fedora.
Installing glibc and glibc-devel helped me