RE: apt issues with gcc?
spider:~# apt-get upgrade
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following packages have been kept back:
classpath expect imagemagick libgtk2.0-0 libgtk2.0-bin libldap2
libtomcat4-java libxerces2-java netpbm sendmail
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 10 not upgraded.
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** above I have removed gcc.. lets see what happens if I remove it: **
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spider:~# apt-get clean
spider:~# apt-get install gcc
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
gcc-3.3
Suggested packages:
manpages-dev autoconf automake libtool flex bison gdb gcc-doc gcc-3.3-doc
The following NEW packages will be installed:
gcc gcc-3.3
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 10 not upgraded.
Need to get 1613kB of archives.
After unpacking 4252kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
Get:1 http://ftp.belnet.be testing/main gcc-3.3 1:3.3.4-6sarge1.1 [1608kB]
Get:2 http://ftp.belnet.be testing/main gcc 4:3.3.4-2 [4904B]
Fetched 1613kB in 9s (178kB/s)
Selecting previously deselected package gcc-3.3.
(Reading database ... 51758 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking gcc-3.3 (from .../gcc-3.3_1%3a3.3.4-6sarge1.1_i386.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing
/var/cache/apt/archives/gcc-3.3_1%3a3.3.4-6sarge1.1_i386.deb (--unpack):
trying to overwrite `/usr/share/doc/gcc-3.3-base/changelog.Debian.gz',
which is also in package gcc-3.3-base
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Selecting previously deselected package gcc.
Unpacking gcc (from .../gcc_4%3a3.3.4-2_i386.deb) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/gcc-3.3_1%3a3.3.4-6sarge1.1_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
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** so this doesn't look good... lets remove it again... **
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spider:~# apt-get remove gcc
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
gcc
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 10 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B of archives.
After unpacking 28.7kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
(Reading database ... 51772 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing gcc ...
spider:~# apt-get upgrade
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following packages have been kept back:
classpath expect imagemagick libgtk2.0-0 libgtk2.0-bin libldap2
libtomcat4-java libxerces2-java netpbm sendmail
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 10 not upgraded.
spider:~#
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** and now it is clean again... but no gcc :( **
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Have been using Debian for quite some time now. Why did I not subscribe to
this list before? Well because I never experienced any problems. So great
stuff Debian crew! I am sure this is either something that can&will be fixed
in no-time, or a stupid misconfig on my behalf :)
Peter
| -----Original Message-----
| From: Peter [mailto:debian@punkass.be]
| Sent: zondag 29 augustus 2004 1:51
| To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
| Subject: apt issues with gcc?
|
| Hi,
|
| Am i the only person experiencing issues with apt? I get some errors and
| the upgrade aborts. It seems to have issues with gcc. I have tested it
| on
| 2 boxes.
|
| I just joined the list, sorry if somebody else already reported this.
|
| I am using woody/testing.
|
| Greetings from Belgium,
| Peter
|
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