Hi,

David Arnstein wrote (01 Jan 2015 19:55:36 GMT) :
> I need to install gcc-4.8 in tails linux (latest release).

gcc-4.8 isn't available in Debian Wheezy, so that's going to be hard.
Two experienced Debian developers I know have tried backporting it to
Wheezy, and gave up.

> I need the linux-headers package so I can install broadcom-sta-dkms.

> I need broadcom-sta-dkms so that I can get WiFi working on my Macbook Air.

Frankly, it looks like you're going to spend a lot of time on
a solution that will work only for you, and that will require manual
work from you regularly.

A better solution, that's going to work for every Tails user, and
require to do work *once*, is in the works:

  https://labs.riseup.net/code/issues/7798
  https://bugs.debian.org/748679
  https://bugs.debian.org/749109

All needed changes are now part of Debian Jessie, so it should be
quite easy to first add support for building broadcom-sta-dkms in the
Tails feature/jessie branch (I'm currently testing this locally), and
then either:

  * either we can use live-{boot,config} 4.x in Tails/Wheezy, and pull
    broadcom-sta-dkms from Jessie or put it in wheezy-backports;
  * or we focus on releasing Tails/Jessie ASAP.

Cheers,
--
intrigeri
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