[nzlug] gcc on ubuntu dapper?

[Cliff Pratt]

SIMON WALKDEN wrote:
> G'day,
> 
> I've done a clean install of ubuntu 6.06 dapper. No LAMP, no X; just a
> nice clean slate. After trying to install gcc, I recieved the
> following:
> 
> root at ubuntu-server:/etc/apt# apt-get install build-essential
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree... Done
> Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
> requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
> distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
> or been moved out of Incoming.
> 
> Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
> the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
> that package should be filed.
> The following information may help to resolve the situation:
> 
> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>  build-essential: Depends: libc6-dev but it is not going to be installed or
>                            libc-dev
>                   Depends: gcc (>= 4:4.0) but it is not going to be 
> installed
>                   Depends: g++ (>= 4:4.0) but it is not going to be 
> installed
>                   Depends: dpkg-dev (>= 1.13.5) but it is not going
> to be installed
> E: Broken packages
> 
Try installing the mentioned packages too. I'm not quite sure why 
dpkg-dev is there (it's not installed on my Ubuntu 6.06), but the rest 
are all linked.

Cheers,

Cliff