Thank you, Ari and Steffan.
Even after tyring "apt-get", I still had the problem.
However, after I followed Ari's advice, I could get it and
the problem went away!!
swbeta20:/etc/apt# apt-get install egcs64
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
egcs64
0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 4 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/1017kB of archives. After unpacking 2793kB will be used.
Selecting previously deselected package egcs64.
(Reading database ... 54829 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking egcs64 (from .../egcs64_1%3a19980921-4_sparc.deb) ...
Setting up egcs64 (19980921-4) ...
Eiji
From: Steffan Baron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Where can I get egcs64 for sparc64 Linux ?
Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 09:38:35 +0100 (MET)
> >Could you tell me where I can get egcs64 for sparc64 Linux ?
> >According to the documentation, it's needed to compile sparc64 linux
> >source files, but I can't find it so far.
>
> Did you try 'apt-get install egcs64' ??
>
> Steffan
From: Ari Heitner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Where can I get egcs64 for sparc64 Linux ?
Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 02:34:21 -0500 (EST)
> On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, Eiji Ota wrote:
>
> > swbeta20:/cdrom/dists/stable/main/binary-sparc# !apt
> > apt-get install egcs64
> > Reading Package Lists... Done
> > Building Dependency Tree... Done
> > Package egcs64 has no available version, but exists in the database.
> > This typically means that the package was mentioned in a dependency and
> > never uploaded, has been obsoleted or is not available with the contents
> > of sources.list
> > E: Package egcs64 has no installation candidate
> >
>
> Hum. When i try this, I get:
>
> dunsinane:~# apt-get install egcs64
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
> egcs64
> 0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 49 not upgraded.
> Need to get 1017kB of archives. After unpacking 2793kB will be used.
> Get:1 http://http.us.debian.org potato/main egcs64 1:19980921-4 [1017kB]
> Fetched 1017kB in 2s (371kB/s)
> Selecting previously deselected package egcs64.
> (Reading database ... 43106 files and directories currently installed.)
> Unpacking egcs64 (from .../egcs64_1%3a19980921-4_sparc.deb) ...
> Setting up egcs64 (19980921-4) ...
>
> dunsinane:~#
>
> i.e. it works fine.
>
> This probably means that yes, your environment is broken. What version do you
> have installed? i'm running stable (2.2). My sources list is:
>
> dunsinane:~# cat /etc/apt/sources.list
> deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian potato main contrib non-free
> deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian potato main contrib non-free
>
> deb ftp://pandora.debian.org/debian-non-US potato/non-US main contrib
> non-free
> deb-src ftp://pandora.debian.org/debian-non-US potato/non-US main contrib
> non-free
>
> after making source your sources.list is right, do an 'apt-get update' then an
> 'apt-get upgrade' to bring you up to date with the repository. Then an
> 'apt-get
> install egcs64' should work. if you don't have access to a fast internet
> connection, consider ordering Potato/SPARC CDs. You can get them from
> cheapbytes.com for $6.
>
>
>
>
> cheers,
>
> ari
>
>