Re: probs installing g++ on unstable
michael writes: I have an unstable system on which I'm trying to install g++ but I've been getting the below dependency problem for about a month. Could somebody highlight whether this is just an 'unstable' some packages just not ready issue or something deeper? I've included what I think is all the required info. Thanks, Michael Seems to be a problem in your environment. g++ works fine here: $ dpkg -l | egrep ^ii.*'(libstdc\+\+|g\+\+)' ii g++ 4.1.1-15 ii g++-4.1 4.1.1-21 ii libstdc++6 4.1.1-21 ii libstdc++6-4.1-dev 4.1.1-21 The following packages have unmet dependencies: libc6-dev: Depends: libc6 (= 2.3.6.ds1-10) but 2.3.6-15 is to be installed E: Broken packages [snip] ii libc6 2.3.6-15 GNU C Library: Shared libraries This a *very* outdated version of libc6 (released on Juny 2006). When was your last upgrade? -- -- Jhair -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: probs installing g++ on unstable
On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 02:21:52PM +, michael wrote: I have an unstable system on which I'm trying to install g++ but I've been getting the below dependency problem for about a month. Could somebody highlight whether this is just an 'unstable' some packages just not ready issue or something deeper? I've included what I think is all the required info. Thanks, Michael Script started on Sat 27 Jan 2007 14:18:36 GMT ~$ sudo apt-get install g++ Please use aptitude. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: probs installing g++ on unstable
On Sat, 2007-01-27 at 14:51 +0100, Jhair Tocancipa Triana wrote: michael writes: I have an unstable system on which I'm trying to install g++ but I've been getting the below dependency problem for about a month. Could somebody highlight whether this is just an 'unstable' some packages just not ready issue or something deeper? I've included what I think is all the required info. Thanks, Michael Seems to be a problem in your environment. g++ works fine here: $ dpkg -l | egrep ^ii.*'(libstdc\+\+|g\+\+)' ii g++ 4.1.1-15 ii g++-4.1 4.1.1-21 ii libstdc++6 4.1.1-21 ii libstdc++6-4.1-dev 4.1.1-21 For which I get: ~$ dpkg -l | egrep ^ii.*'(libstdc\+\+|g\+\+)' ii libstdc++5 3.3.6-13 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii libstdc++6 4.1.1-21 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 The following packages have unmet dependencies: libc6-dev: Depends: libc6 (= 2.3.6.ds1-10) but 2.3.6-15 is to be installed E: Broken packages [snip] ii libc6 2.3.6-15 GNU C Library: Shared libraries This a *very* outdated version of libc6 (released on Juny 2006). When was your last upgrade? today! ~$ sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install libc6 Hit http://ftp.uk.debian.org unstable/main Packages Hit http://ftp.uk.debian.org unstable/main Release Hit http://ftp.uk.debian.org unstable/non-free Packages Hit http://ftp.uk.debian.org unstable/non-free Release Hit http://ftp.uk.debian.org unstable/contrib Packages Hit http://ftp.uk.debian.org unstable/contrib Release Reading Package Lists... Done Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done libc6 is already the newest version. 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 255 not upgraded. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: probs installing g++ on unstable
On Sat, 2007-01-27 at 09:45 -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 02:21:52PM +, michael wrote: I have an unstable system on which I'm trying to install g++ but I've been getting the below dependency problem for about a month. Could somebody highlight whether this is just an 'unstable' some packages just not ready issue or something deeper? I've included what I think is all the required info. Thanks, Michael Script started on Sat 27 Jan 2007 14:18:36 GMT ~$ sudo apt-get install g++ Please use aptitude. Please excuse my ignorance but I was under the impression that aptitude and apt did the same thing, so how would using aptitude solve my problem (and presumably it would be possible to solve it using apt-get in a similar manner...)? Thanks again, Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: probs installing g++ on unstable
On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 02:45:55PM +, michael wrote: today! ~$ sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install libc6 Hit http://ftp.uk.debian.org unstable/main Packages Hit http://ftp.uk.debian.org unstable/main Release Hit http://ftp.uk.debian.org unstable/non-free Packages Hit http://ftp.uk.debian.org unstable/non-free Release Hit http://ftp.uk.debian.org unstable/contrib Packages Hit http://ftp.uk.debian.org unstable/contrib Release Reading Package Lists... Done Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done libc6 is already the newest version. 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 255 not upgraded. Please use aptitude and start doing dist-upgrade instead of updating individual packages. That is simply asking for trouble if you are running Sid. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: probs installing g++ on unstable
On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 03:35:47PM +, michael wrote: Please excuse my ignorance but I was under the impression that aptitude and apt did the same thing, so how would using aptitude solve my problem (and presumably it would be possible to solve it using apt-get in a similar manner...)? Thanks again, Michael It is recommended because aptitude has better dependency resolution logic. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: probs installing g++ on unstable
michael writes: On Sat, 2007-01-27 at 14:51 +0100, Jhair Tocancipa Triana wrote: michael writes: ii libc6 2.3.6-15 GNU C Library: Shared libraries This a *very* outdated version of libc6 (released on Juny 2006). When was your last upgrade? today! ~$ sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install libc6 Hit http://ftp.uk.debian.org unstable/main Packages Hit http://ftp.uk.debian.org unstable/main Release Hit http://ftp.uk.debian.org unstable/non-free Packages Hit http://ftp.uk.debian.org unstable/non-free Release Hit http://ftp.uk.debian.org unstable/contrib Packages Hit http://ftp.uk.debian.org unstable/contrib Release Reading Package Lists... Done Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done libc6 is already the newest version. 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 255 not upgraded. Latest libc6 version in unstable is 2.3.6.ds1-10 though. What does apt-cache policy libc6 say? -- -- Jhair -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: probs installing g++ on unstable
On Sat, 2007-01-27 at 15:08 +0100, Jhair Tocancipa Triana wrote: michael writes: On Sat, 2007-01-27 at 14:51 +0100, Jhair Tocancipa Triana wrote: michael writes: ii libc6 2.3.6-15 GNU C Library: Shared libraries This a *very* outdated version of libc6 (released on Juny 2006). When was your last upgrade? today! ~$ sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install libc6 Hit http://ftp.uk.debian.org unstable/main Packages Hit http://ftp.uk.debian.org unstable/main Release Hit http://ftp.uk.debian.org unstable/non-free Packages Hit http://ftp.uk.debian.org unstable/non-free Release Hit http://ftp.uk.debian.org unstable/contrib Packages Hit http://ftp.uk.debian.org unstable/contrib Release Reading Package Lists... Done Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done libc6 is already the newest version. 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 255 not upgraded. Latest libc6 version in unstable is 2.3.6.ds1-10 though. What does apt-cache policy libc6 say? aha! ~$ apt-cache policy libc6 libc6: Installed: 2.3.6-15 Candidate: 2.3.6-15 Package pin: 2.3.6-15 Version table: 2.3.6.ds1-10 1000 500 http://ftp.uk.debian.org unstable/main Packages *** 2.3.6-15 1000 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status which I presume means I've pinned it in the past... And removing said entry from /etc/apt/preferences and I'm away: ~$ sudo apt-get install g++ Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done The following extra packages will be installed: g++-4.1 libc6 libc6-dev libstdc++6-4.1-dev locales Suggested packages: gcc-4.1-doc lib64stdc++6 glibc-doc manpages-dev libstdc++6-4.1-doc The following NEW packages will be installed g++ g++-4.1 libc6-dev libstdc++6-4.1-dev The following packages will be upgraded: libc6 locales 2 upgraded, 4 newly installed, 0 to remove and 249 not upgraded. Need to get 15.7MB of archives. After unpacking 26.3MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Many thanks! (Shame that apt-get doesn't tell me I've something pinned and thus why won't be upgraded.) Mega Thanks, M -- -- Jhair -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: probs installing g++ on unstable
michael writes: On Sat, 2007-01-27 at 15:08 +0100, Jhair Tocancipa Triana wrote: Latest libc6 version in unstable is 2.3.6.ds1-10 though. What does apt-cache policy libc6 say? aha! ~$ apt-cache policy libc6 libc6: Installed: 2.3.6-15 Candidate: 2.3.6-15 Package pin: 2.3.6-15 Version table: 2.3.6.ds1-10 1000 500 http://ftp.uk.debian.org unstable/main Packages *** 2.3.6-15 1000 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status which I presume means I've pinned it in the past... Yes, that was the source of your problem. The following packages will be upgraded: libc6 locales 2 upgraded, 4 newly installed, 0 to remove and 249 not upgraded. Need to get 15.7MB of archives. After unpacking 26.3MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Many thanks! (Shame that apt-get doesn't tell me I've something pinned and thus why won't be upgraded.) You are welcome, -- -- Jhair -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
