Re: cannot build-essentials

2011-02-18 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 17 Feb 2011 15:16:46 -0500, Paul Cartwright wrote: > On 02/17/2011 02:21 PM, Camaleón wrote: >>> I think I am having some repository issue?? >>> > >>> > aptitude update gives me this: >>> > Errhttp://ftp.us.debian.org lenny/updates/contrib Sources >>> >>

Re: cannot build-essentials-SOLVED

2011-02-17 Thread Paul Cartwright
On 02/17/2011 02:22 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: My crystal ball tells me that the filesystem where you ran this is mounted with the "noexec" option. Fix this and retry. I am not sure what to do about those filesystems, as far as the noexec. It doesn't show that in /etc/fstab. copying the sourc

Re: cannot build-essentials

2011-02-17 Thread Paul Cartwright
On 02/17/2011 02:21 PM, Camaleón wrote: I think I am having some repository issue?? > > aptitude update gives me this: > Errhttp://ftp.us.debian.org lenny/updates/contrib Sources ^ ^ ^ I can't see that stanza in your "/etc/apt/sources.list" bu

Re: cannot build-essentials

2011-02-17 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-02-17 20:02 +0100, Paul Cartwright wrote: > # apt-get install build-essentials > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree > Reading state information... Done > E: Couldn't find package build-essentials > > > I think I am having some repository issue?? The above error is no

Re: cannot build-essentials

2011-02-17 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 17 Feb 2011 14:02:52 -0500, Paul Cartwright wrote: > # apt-get install build-essentials ^ Remove the last "s"... is "build-essential" sm01@stt008:~$ apt-cache search build-essential devscripts - scripts to make the life of a Debian Package maintainer ea