Hi,

I am trying to install the Radius server on the UBuntu VM and its giving me this error:
root@edutest:~/radsecproxy-1.6.2# ./configure
checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking target system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p
checking for gawk... no
checking for mawk... mawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... no
checking for gcc... gcc
checking whether the C compiler works... no
configure: error: in `/root/radsecproxy-1.6.2':
configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables
See `config.log' for more details


can you pls help

Welcome to LQ.

sudo apt-get install g++ build-essential

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When i execute that command it shows:
root@edutest:~/radsecproxy-1.6.2# apt-get install g++ build-essential
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... 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.
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
g++ : Depends: g++-4.7 (>= 4.7.2-1~) but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.


I ran "apt-get update" first and still displays the above error

# 3

sudo apt-get install -f
... to fix "broken".

Which Ubuntu version are you using ? ?
( Looks like you have a corrupt /etc/apt/sources.list ).

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Hi,

This is what I get when I execute:

root@edutest:/etc/default# sudo apt-get install -f
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

root@edutest:/etc/default# cat /proc/version
Linux version 2.6.32-5-686 (Debian 2.6.32-46) (dannf@debian.org) (gcc version 4.3.5 (Debian 4.3.5-4) ) #1 SMP Sun Sep 23 09:49:36 UTC 2012

Hope this will help.

Sakhi

Linux version 2.6.32-5-686 : Looks like Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid.


Deciding "Ubuntu version" :
Please show the output from the command : cat /etc/issue


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Below is the output:

root@edutest:~# cat /etc/issue
Debian GNU/Linux 7.0 \n \l

# 7

So which OS did you actually install ?
1) Post #1 says Ubuntu, your logo is Ubuntu.
2) "Debian GNU/Linux 7.0 \n \l" is Debian Wheezy ?
3) "2.6.32-5-686" : Debian 6.0 Squeeze ?

Please show your /etc/apt/sources.list
.. in code tags, please.

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I am a newbie and definitely not sure: what's happening:

It was Debian 6 Squeeze. Dont know whether it has upgraded to Wheezy due to the changes made on the /etc/apt/sources.list file, because i have been playing with this file trying to sort this problem out.

root@edutest:~# cat /etc/apt/sources.list
##########Debian Main Repos
deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ wheezy main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ wheezy main contrib non-free

###### Debian Update Repos
deb http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main contrib non-free
deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ wheezy-proposed-updates main contrib non-free
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ wheezy-proposed-updates main contrib non-free

Sorry for not helping you to help me.

# 9

Not easy to know how you updated from Squeeze to Wheezy.

But when you cannot install 'libc6-dev' ( Ref. post #3 ),
then something is really really wrong.

May be an OS reinstall will be necessary to solve the issues ?

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is there a way of degrading it to squeeze, other than doing fresh installtion again?

# 11

Don't know. I never do "upgrades". Always a new OS install.

Suggest : Start a new thread with your question.

Ok. I will do so.

Thanks for your willingly assistance