Bart Szyszka said: >> Why don't you get the package tasksel (for potato) and look for >> yourself? >> Besides, this is what the task-devel-* packages (again from potato) are >> for; they're probably the best answer to your question. > >Thanks! That sounds like exactly what I needed. > >> >And please don't give me ridiculous answers like "download the packages >> >the app requires". >> For most people this isn't a ridiculous answer; if you're compiling a >> program then (assuming some development experience) it's *common* >> *sense* to have the development packages associated with whatever that >> program depends on. > >Right, but what we're not talking about compiling one specific program in >general. We're talking about compiling programs. One FAQ I saw actually >only said something to the effect of "get gcc" for "What do I need to >compile programs"? That's horrendously absurd! gcc is not the only thing >you need to "compile programs".
And then, of course, when you actually go to grab gcc or g++ it fails with a 404:
% more apt-errors Reading Package Lists... Building Dependency Tree... Sorry, binutils is already the newest version Sorry, bison is already the newest version Sorry, gdb is already the newest version Sorry, libc6-dev is already the newest version Sorry, make is already the newest version The following extra packages will be installed: cpp libstdc++2.10-dev The following NEW packages will be installed: binutils-dev cpp g++ gcc libstdc++2.10-dev 0 packages upgraded, 5 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 2392kB/2625kB of archives. After unpacking 7827kB will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Err http://http.us.debian.org frozen/main cpp 1:2.95.2-7 404 Not Found Err http://http.us.debian.org frozen/main g++ 1:2.95.2-7 404 Not Found Err http://http.us.debian.org frozen/main gcc 1:2.95.2-7 404 Not Found Err http://http.us.debian.org frozen/main libstdc++2.10-dev 1:2.95.2-7 404 Not Found With the sources.list: # /etc/apt/sources.list deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian frozen main contrib non-free deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US frozen/non-US main contrib non-free deb http://security.debian.org frozen/updates main contrib non-free # Uncomment if you want the apt-get source function to work deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian frozen main contrib non-free deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US frozen non-US Using Potato. Maybe I'm just too sleepy, and I'm getting silly. Brian
