gcc-4.3 is no longer installable: # apt-get install gcc-4.3 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: gcc-4.3 : Depends: binutils (>= 2.19.1) but it is not going to be installed iceweasel : Depends: xulrunner-5.0 (>= 5.0-6) but it is not going to be installed libgcc1 : Breaks: gcc-4.3 but 4.3.5-4 is to be installed E: Broken packages And gcc-4.2 doesn't work: # gcc-4.2 hw.c /usr/bin/ld: cannot find crt1.o: No such file or directory /usr/bin/ld: cannot find crti.o: No such file or directory /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lgcc_s collect2: ld returned 1 exit status # gcc-4.2 -B/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu hw.c /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lgcc_s collect2: ld returned 1 exit status (gcc-4.3 comes from squeeze and gcc-4.2 from lenny). -- Andy, BlueArc Engineering