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

[Nate Duehr <nate@natetech.com>]

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 file being modified by multiple gcc 
packages.

Nate

On Sep 1, 2004, at 10:22 AM, Hendrik Boom wrote:

> I'm running denian-sarge.
> When I try to install gcc using aptitude, I get the following lament:
>
> ftp://mirror.direct.ca testing/main gcc-3.31:3.3.4 [ERROR]
>  Unable to fetch file, server said 
> '/pub/linux/debian/pool/main//g/gcc-3.3/gcc-3.
>
> I get similar messages for several other files, such as cpp-3.3 
> gcc-3.3 libgcj-common, mpeglib (I asked for a few other packages, 
> too).
>
> Is there a problem with gcc and friends?
> Or with the mirror?
> Or (most likely) have I done something wrong?
>
> -- hendrik
>
>
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