On Tuesday 06 June 2006 20:13, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 04:38:20PM +0200, Francesco Pietra wrote: > > Hi Matthew: > > Thank you. However: > > > > $alias gcc="gcc-4.1" make > > -bash: alias: make: not found > > > > $man alias > > No manual entry for alias > > > > I am making a cup of doubly strong green tea > > I think that should have been: > # alias gcc="gcc-4.1" > # make Retrying as you suggest as root, the first command returns the root prompt #make gcc - g -02 -c -o active.o active.c make: gcc: Command not found make: *** [active.o] Error 127 that is, as if the alis was not activated.
> > Not sure make can use shell aliases though. > > So your real problem is that gcc-4.0 which gcc depends on is not > currently installable for some reason on your system. Just to detail what errors: #apt-get install gcc gcc: Depends: gcc-4.0 (>=4.0.2-5) but it is not installable. E: Broken packages. > > What output/errors do you get from: > apt-get install gcc-4.0 #apt-get install gcc-4.0 Reading.. Building dependency tree... Package 4.0 is not available, but is referred to by another package. This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or is only available from another source. However the following packages replace it: gcc-4.0-locales W. (a series of warnings that Couldn't stat source package list at http:... E: Package gcc-4.0 has no installation candidate. My sources.list from which the net installation was carried out with only main and the row end (subsequently, apt-get update did nothing): deb http://debian.inode.at/debian-amd64/debian/ etch main contrib non-free deb-src http://debian.inode.at/debian-amd64/debian/ etch main contrib non-free deb http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib non-free deb-src http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib non-free thanks a lot for your interest and kind advice francesco pietra > Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
