cannot install gcc

[Liam Proven]

On 11 March 2014 13:30, John R. Sowden <jsowden at americansentry.net> wrote:
> ran the two and this is returned after the 2nd:
>
> john at sentry10:~$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade -y
>
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> Calculating upgrade... Done
> The following packages have been kept back:
>   binutils
>
> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
>
> binutils crashed earlier when I tried to extract the pkg
> I tried to upgrade it, but, in ubuntu soft center it said it needed to
> delete a lot of pkgs, including free pascal-thought that was weird (reverse
> dependency?)


OK, well, I think we've isolated the problem! TBH I am not sure what
to do about it, though.

Forcibly upgrading it is what I'd do, and then, if necessary,
re-installing anything that was removed afterwards.

I am not sure it's relevant but this is the most informative answer to
a related question that I can quickly find:
http://askubuntu.com/questions/424868/cannot-install-gcc-4-8-because-of-unmet-dependencies

FWIW, I don't use the S/W Center - I find it slow and it hides info
from me. Synaptic or the shell for me.

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