On Sun, 2009-08-02 at 11:23 +0100, Daniel Drummond wrote: > Harry Rickards wrote: > > What if you do (sudo) apt-get update first? > > > I always update before installing packages. Doesn't make a difference > to installing g++. I have checked my software sources, and they all > seem fine. > I have tried installing build-essential, which used to pull in g++ > automatically, but that isn't working either. g++ doesn't appear in > Add/Remove software, or synaptic.
m...@serenity:~$ sudo aptitude show g++ Package: g++ New: yes State: installed Automatically installed: yes Version: 4:4.3.3-1ubuntu1 Priority: optional Section: devel Maintainer: Ubuntu Core Developers <[email protected]> Uncompressed Size: 41.0k Depends: cpp (>= 4:4.3.3-1ubuntu1), gcc (>= 4:4.3.3-1ubuntu1), g++-4.3 (>= 4.3.3-1), gcc-4.3 (>= 4.3.3-1) Suggests: g++-multilib Provides: c++-compiler Description: The GNU C++ compiler This is the GNU C++ compiler, a fairly portable optimizing compiler for C++. This is a dependency package providing the default GNU C++ compiler. It also appears to be here... http://packages.ubuntu.com/jaunty/devel/g++ -Matt Daubney -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
