cannot install gcc

[Liam Proven]

On 11 March 2014 13:05, John R. Sowden <jsowden at americansentry.net> wrote:
> got the following:
>
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.


OK, mostly, that's good news. It means that there are no missing
dependencies or anything. The "1 not upgraded" bit might mean that you
have an package that's pinned at some lower/older version, though.

I would suggest, next, that you try:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade -y

If that works smoothly, good. If it installs stuff, it's probably
worth rebooting.

Then try:

sudo apt-get install build-essential -y

That should bring in GCC and all its ancillary parts. If there are
problems, then this might help:

sudo apt-get clean
sudo apt-get autoclean
sudo apt-get autoremove
sudo apt-get purge

Then try

sudo apt-get install build-essential -y

... again.

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