Re: aptitude refuses to install gcc and a few other things

2004-09-02 Thread Nate Duehr
My system was complaining that one of the README files was provided by multiple gcc packages. Looks like a packaging error. A dpkg -i --force-all on the gcc packages worked to get them all installed after I carefully checked that this was the only thing apt was complaining about. Same README

Re: solved with minor glitch: Re: aptitude refuses to install gcc and a few other things

2004-09-01 Thread Didde Brockman
Well, I'm no expert, but I guess sometimes the mirrors moves stuff around or they just "die off", and hence /etc/apt/sources.list gets outdated. It usually happens on some of our older systems which have not been "apt-get update"-ed in quite a while. Someone else can probably give you a more accu

Re: aptitude refuses to install gcc and a few other things

2004-09-01 Thread Thomas Adam
On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 06:31:35PM +0200, Didde Brockman wrote: > Try running "apt-get update" to make sure your sources for apt are up > to date, then retry your install. That usually solves the problems I > get which look similar to yours :) It's worth mentioning that if you're going to insta

solved with minor glitch: Re: aptitude refuses to install gcc and a few other things

2004-09-01 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 06:31:35PM +0200, Didde Brockman wrote: > Try running "apt-get update" to make sure your sources for apt are up > to date, then retry your install. That usually solves the problems I > get which look similar to yours :) > > //didde. > > On Sep 01, 2004, at 18:22, Hendri

Re: aptitude refuses to install gcc and a few other things

2004-09-01 Thread Didde Brockman
Try running "apt-get update" to make sure your sources for apt are up to date, then retry your install. That usually solves the problems I get which look similar to yours :) //didde. On Sep 01, 2004, at 18:22, Hendrik Boom wrote: I'm running denian-sarge. When I try to install gcc using aptitud