On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 09:45:14PM -0700, T Elcor wrote:
> I'm on Wheezy, installing build-essential appears to be a bit problematic:
>
> # aptitude install make gcc build-essential
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
> build-essential bzip2{a} dpkg-dev{a} g++{a} g++-4.6{a} libc-dev-bin{a}
> libc6-dev{a}
> libclass-isa-perl{a} libdpkg-perl{a} libfile-fcntllock-perl{a}
> libstdc++6-4.6-dev{a} libswitch-perl{a}
> libtimedate-perl{a} linux-libc-dev{a}
> The following packages will be upgraded:
> perl perl-base perl-modules
> The following packages are RECOMMENDED but will NOT be installed:
> fakeroot libalgorithm-merge-perl manpages-dev
> 3 packages upgraded, 14 newly installed, 0 to remove and 16 not upgraded.
> Need to get 23.8 MB of archives. After unpacking 35.2 MB will be used.
> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
> libtext-charwidth-perl : Depends: perlapi-5.12.4 which is a virtual package.
> libuuid-perl : Depends: perlapi-5.12.3 which is a virtual package.
> libdbi-perl : Depends: perlapi-5.12.3 which is a virtual package.
> liblocale-gettext-perl : PreDepends: perlapi-5.12.4 which is a virtual
> package.
> libdbd-mysql-perl : Depends: perlapi-5.12.4 which is a virtual package.
> libperl5.12 : Depends: perl-base (= 5.12.4-6) but 5.14.2-9 is to be
> installed.
> libtext-iconv-perl : Depends: perlapi-5.12.4 which is a virtual package.
> The following actions will resolve these dependencies:
>
> Remove the following packages: <list of 144 packages>
I don't know how one would get over this. It is possible that you are
caught in the midst of a transition, but I am not sure.
Should you just want the stdio.h header, maybe getting libc6-dev
should do. You could try installing just that.
Kumar
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