<quote who="Dave Kempe">
> I have a circular deb problem. there seems to be some sort of dependencies
> mixup. How do i get out of it?
> I want a c++ compiler at the end :)
This may not be an immediate solution to the dependency problem, however
it's often a good idea to use Debian's task-based packages for these
situations.
Say you want to install gcc: You can "apt-get install gcc", but that only
gives you the compiler. If you want to do anything useful (ie. compile most
packages available these days) you'll need a whole host of other software.
For C and C++ development, there are two straight-forward tasks: task-c-dev
and task-c++-dev; and one very useful task: task-devel-common (which
installs things like make, patch, auto*, etc).
Try task-c++-dev and see how that goes. :)
If you run into the same problem, then you're either using unstable (and
perhaps a clunky mirror at that), or your system has become mightily
confused for one reason or another (have you made sure your sources.list
lines are all intact and sensible? My money's on that).
- Jeff
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