Rui Silva wrote:
First reason: this damn nVidia box won't give me internet connectivity from Linux until I can apply the patches.why not do apt-get install --reinstall gcc3.2
it would download all the dependecies
Second reason: if it isn't on the download site, it isn't gonna be downloaded anyway.
My only connection, until I can get past this problem, is to download .deb files using Windoze,
boot into Debian, locate the file and do dpkg --install ... . Then I find out what's missing and I have to boot back to Win to locate pieces to fix it. Serious PITA. If Windows weren't such a piece of crap I would have about run out of patience and chucked the Linux install altogether.
On Tuesday 23 November 2004 00:19, David A. Cobb wrote:
After five months of struggling ( I had connectivity very briefly before an "upgrade" make my whole installation useless and sent me back to the CD's ), it appears that I need to be able to build the nVidia kernel-patch with _the_same_version_ of gcc that was used to compile my kernel. I'm using kernel-image-2.4.26, and the nVidia installer reports this was built with gcc-3.2.
OK, I go to install gcc-3.2. Including the Fortran, which I probably don't really need, I get these complaints from dpkg: "gcc-3.2 depends on libgcc1 (>= 1:3.2.3-9)" "gcc-3.2 depends on binutils (>= 2.13.90.0.10)" "g77-3.2 depends on libg2c0;" "lib.....depends on libstdc++5 (>= 1:3.2.3-9)"
Argh, those are not with gcc-3.2. In fact, when I check the download site (tonight) I find libgcc1_3.0.4-7_i386.deb from gcc-3.0 libgcc1_3.3.4-13_hppa.deb -- and NO i386 package from gcc-3.3 libgcc1_3.3.5-2_hppa.deb -- and NO i386 package from gcc-3.3 libgcc1_3.4.2-2_i386.deb from gcc-3.4 libgcc1_4.0-0pre0_i386.deb from gcc-4.0 libg2c0_3.3.4-13_i386.deb from gcc-3.3 libg2c0_3.3.5-2_i386.deb from gcc-3.3 binutils_2.12.90.0.1-4_i386.deb - which I already have and is too low binutils_2.15-4_i386.deb
It seems I am stuck dead in the water unless I can come up with a working gcc-3.2 compiler to do the nVidia install.
The alternative looks like trying to recompile my kernel with I compiler I can get.
I actually tried that with gcc-3.4 but got errored out immediately. That is hardly my first choice, so I didn't pursue that further.
I have gcc-2.95 and gcc-3.0. I had gcc-3.2 but had to remove it because I couldn't get 3.3 or 3.4 to coexist. I don't really want to give away space to five or six different generations of compiler. One, maybe two, but not this fiasco.
Where can I go to get the missing libs?? [ backports is also no help in this ].
Anyway, why is gcc-3.2 on the download site so incomplete?
I also couldn't get 3.3 up and flying for very similar reasons - key libs missing - but what I need is 3.2!
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