Nirmal Govind wrote:
Hi.. how do I go about upgrading packages which have dependencies and which are necessary for other programs.. for e.g. I'm trying to upgrade my version of gcc from 2.95 to 3.2 but if I download the individual gcc, g++, g77 etc. packages and try dpkg on them I get lots of unmet dependencies like binutils (which conflicts with modutils..) etc.. any smooth way to do this using apt-get or so? Thanks, nirmal
You can install 2.95 and 3.2 side by side if you want. You should be able to just
apt-get install gcc-3.2 (note special package name since gcc 2.95 is still the primary compiler)The actual binary is called 'gcc-3.2', so you might need to set your 'CC' environment variable to refer to that. It should work in most circumstances.
I don't know if this is available in woody, but it is in testing. Regards, Pat