Debian 6 Squeeze - installing build-essentials - gcc / g++
Solution 1
You appear to have a mixture of Debian stable (squeeze) and Debian testing (wheezy) or unstable (sid). Specifically, your libc6 package is the testing/unstable version, but your package sources point to stable.
You need to pick a distribution between stable, testing and unstable — you can't really mix them (you can mix testing and unstable if you don't mind the occasional annoyance, but stable is too far apart).
If you pick stable, you need to downgrade your system. Downgrading is supported by apt-get
, but you can expect some pain as not all packages support downgrading. Since you're new to Debian, I recommend reinstalling unless you've already customized your system a lot. You can save and restore your home directory; also back up the /etc
directory, but restore files from it only on a case-by-case basis.
If you pick testing or unstable, edit your software sources in /etc/apt/sources.list
to have testing
or wheezy
or unstable
or sid
where it now says stable
or squeeze
.
You're right that installing the build-essential
package is a good way to install development tools, by the way. And gcc is the de facto standard C and C++ compiler on Linux; you would only use another if you had very special requirements.
Solution 2
Just open /etc/apt/sources.list
and add these lines:
deb http://packages.dotdeb.org squeeze all
deb-src http://packages.dotdeb.org squeeze all
Save it, then do
apt-get update
apt-get upgrade
then you will see the packages will be installed.
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Maistora
Updated on September 18, 2022Comments
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Maistora over 1 year
I need to install c / c++ compiler and I heard that the best thing to do is to install gcc/g++ for that purpose (I think I don't have it on my machine).
maistora@maistora:~$ gcc --version bash: gcc: command not found
I also read if I install build-essential the c/c++ compiler comes with it. So what I did is:
maistora@maistora:~$ sudo apt-get install 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 Depends: gcc (>= 4:4.4.3) but it is not going to be installed Depends: g++ (>= 4:4.4.3) but it is not going to be installed E: Broken packages
Then, I don't know why but I decided to install the dependencies one by one and started with the
libc6-dev
and this is the output:maistora@maistora:~$ sudo apt-get install libc6-dev 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: libc6-dev : Depends: libc6 (= 2.11.2-10) but 2.13-21 is to be installed Depends: libc-dev-bin (= 2.11.2-10) but it is not going to be installed Recommends: gcc but it is not going to be installed or c-compiler E: Broken packages
And the next thing I did is:
maistora@maistora:~$ sudo apt-get install libc6 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done libc6 is already the newest version. 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
which seem very strange to me. But I'm sure that something basic for you. So, my question is - how can I install build-essentials on my Debian 6 Squeeze or any work-around to install gcc/g++.
P.S. If I write
sudo apt-get install gcc
I will get to the beginning of my post and ending withlibc6 is already the newest version.
(hope I make my point clear). Thanks in advance.-
Admin over 12 yearsI read a post that says the person managed to fix this problem with downgrading some libraries. I am not sure what I am doing so I decided to ask here.
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