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Old 03-13-2006, 03:49 PM   #1
Rexxars
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Unhappy Can't compile - GCC/G++ doesn't seem to be properly installed


Hi.

I've recently purchased a dedicated server with Debian that was setup by.. well, not me
It seems to be unable to compile. I tried to compile Apache, which failed.
To try and figure out the problem, I made a simple hello-world type C app and tried to compile it:

Code:
> gcc -o test a.cpp
gcc: installation problem, cannot exec `cc1plus': No such file or directory
Not sure what's wrong. I've tried "apt-get install build-essential" (read that from some debian FAQ) and got the following result:

Quote:
> apt-get install build-essential
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.

Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
that package should be filed.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
build-essential: Depends: libc6-dev but it is not going to be installed or
libc-dev
Depends: g++ (>= 3:3.3) but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages
I've tried to apt-get libc6-dev, which in turn needs libc6, which "is already the newest version" according to apt-get. This is very, very frustrating. Any ideas?

I know I can apt-get apache and such, but I'd rather try to compile it all myself (I'm trying to learn here)
 
Old 03-13-2006, 04:02 PM   #2
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Please post your /etc/apt/sources.list file. Could be that you're mixing and matching repositories...
 
Old 03-13-2006, 05:01 PM   #3
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"You cannot post URLs to other sites until you have made at least 5 posts."
- Argh. Replace xx with tt in the following:

Code:
deb hxxp://ftp2.de.debian.org/debian/ stable main
deb-src hxxp://ftp2.de.debian.org/debian/ stable main

deb hxxp://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main
Some updates (got some help from the #debian irc channel):

Quote:
> dpkg -l libc6 | tail -1
ii libc6 2.3.5-1 GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone
Seems that somehow I have etch's libc6 and sarge's sources.

I have no idea how this happened.
Is there a way to fix this without reinstalling everything?

Thanks again for any help.
 
Old 03-13-2006, 05:26 PM   #4
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I would say to try apt-get dist-upgrade, but I'm not sure if that will downgrade packages or not. Also, look at /etc/apt/apt.conf and see if that package is pinned to etch...
 
Old 03-14-2006, 01:49 AM   #5
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apt.conf doesn't exist, theres a file in apt.conf.d/ however, but it doesnt contain anything like that.

Quote:
> apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Calculating Upgrade... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
:/
 
Old 03-14-2006, 10:53 AM   #6
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Try apt-get install --reinstall libc6 (or whatever the libc6 package is called.
 
Old 03-14-2006, 11:57 AM   #7
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and for the same price you can do:
Code:
apt-get install libc6-i686
 
Old 03-14-2006, 04:46 PM   #8
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Thanks, installed libc6-i686 and reinstalled some of the other libc packages and it just ended up working

Thanks again to all who helped!
 
  


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