Re: cannot build-essentials
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 indication for that, because you want the package
"build-essential", without a trailing 's'.
> aptitude update gives me this:
> Err http://ftp.us.debian.org lenny/updates/contrib Sources
> 404 Not Found [IP: 204.152.191.39 80]
> Err http://ftp.us.debian.org lenny/updates/non-free Sources
> 404 Not Found [IP: 204.152.191.39 80]
> Err http://ftp.us.debian.org lenny/updates/main Sources
> 404 Not Found [IP: 204.152.191.39 80]
>
> cat /etc/apt/sources.list
> deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free
> deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free
> deb http://security.us.debian.org/ lenny/updates main contrib non-free
> deb http://tovid.sourceforge.net/download/debian lenny contrib
> deb-src http://tovid.sourceforge.net/download/debian lenny contrib
> deb http://deb.opera.com/opera/ lenny non-free
> deb http://download.skype.com/linux/repos/debian/ stable non-free
There is no entry for "http://ftp.us.debian.org lenny/updates/contrib"
here, so I have no clue why aptitude throws these errors. Note that the
IP for ftp.us.debian.org is subject to change due to DNS round robin.
> I think I have removed some apps that I need to configure source packages.
Or maybe not.
> when I try to do a sh ./configure now I get errors:
> # sh ./configure
> checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
> checking whether build environment is sane... yes
> checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p
> checking for gawk... gawk
> checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
> checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no
> checking for style of include used by make... GNU
> checking for gcc... gcc
> checking whether the C compiler works... yes
> checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
> checking for suffix of executables...
> checking whether we are cross compiling... configure: error: in
> /disk2/software/cheese-2.32.0':
> configure: error: cannot run C compiled programs.
> If you meant to cross compile, use `--host'.
> See `config.log' for more details.
>
> configure:3086: checking for gcc
> configure:3102: found /usr/bin/gcc
> configure:3113: result: gcc
> configure:3342: checking for C compiler version
> configure:3351: gcc --version >&5
> gcc-4.3.real (Debian 4.3.4-10) 4.3.4
> gcc version 4.3.4 (Debian 4.3.4-10)
> configure:3362: $? = 0
> configure:3351: gcc -V >&5
> gcc-4.3.real: '-V' option must have argument
> configure:3362: $? = 1
> configure:3351: gcc -qversion >&5
> gcc-4.3.real: unrecognized option '-qversion'
> gcc-4.3.real: no input files
> configure:3362: $? = 1
> configure:3382: checking whether the C compiler works
> configure:3404: gcc conftest.c >&5
> configure:3408: $? = 0
> configure:3457: result: yes
> configure:3460: checking for C compiler default output file name
> configure:3462: result: a.out
> configure:3468: checking for suffix of executables
> configure:3475: gcc -o conftest conftest.c >&5
> configure:3479: $? = 0
> configure:3501: result:
> configure:3523: checking whether we are cross compiling
> configure:3531: gcc -o conftest conftest.c >&5
> configure:3535: $? = 0
> configure:3542: ./conftest
> ./configure: line 3544: ./conftest: Permission denied
My crystal ball tells me that the filesystem where you ran this is
mounted with the "noexec" option. Fix this and retry.
Sven
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