Could Not find very basic packages using APT...

[Fawad Nazir]

Hi Mike,

I tried apt-get install build-essential. It gave me the following:

Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.

Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
that package should be filed.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  build-essential: Depends: libc6-dev but it is not going to be installed or
                            libc-dev

Then i tried. apt-get install libc-dev.
I got this:

Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Note, selecting libc6-dev instead of libc-dev
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.

Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
that package should be filed.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  libc6-dev: Depends: libc6 (= 2.3.5-1ubuntu12) but
2.3.5-1ubuntu12.5.10.1 is to be installed

Then i tried. apt-get install 2.3.5-1ubuntu12.5.10.1.

I got :
e: Couldn't find package 2.3.5-1ubuntu12.5.10.1.

What do you think is the problem and what i am doing wrong here...



On 5/1/06, Michael V. De Palatis <mdepalatis at mail.utexas.edu> wrote:
> On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 07:18:42AM +0500, Fawad Nazir wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I am new to Ubuntu. I just installed Ubuntu-5.10-install-i386. I found
> > out that this is very basic distribution and does not have gcc, make,
> > glibc, ftpd type of packages in it.
>
> The easiest thing to do is just apt-get install build-essential. The
> build-essential package is a meta package that depends on all the
> above packages that are required to do most standard building. If you
> need other particular libraries for building, you need the <library
> name>-dev package for those as well.
>
> Basically, Ubuntu comes with lots of things that are useful for the
> everyday desktop user, who may or may not need to build things from
> source. If the user requires it, it's exceedingly easy to get
> everything necessary to build (just the build-essential package).
>
> Mike
>
> >
> > I tried to use apt to get some of these packges. I added apt sources
> > from Australia and Unites States using apt-setup in apt source list
> > file.
> > Then i used apt-get install command to install the above mentioned
> > packages. I was only able to install gcc and make. For ftp i tried a
> > lot of ftp servers from http://packages.ubuntu.com, atlast was able to
> > install vsftpd and many of the ftp servers listed in pacakges were not
> > available. Similarly, i am still not able to install glibc.
> >
> > Please tell me some good apt sites to list in my apt sourcelist, from
> > which i will be able to install most of the basic softwares.
> >
> > I will be thankful.
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