[vox-tech] gcc 3.3 woes debian sarge (testing) on ppc

[Dylan Beaudette]

Ken Bloom wrote:

>On Sun, 29 Aug 2004 16:09:26 -0700
>dylan <dylan at iici.no-ip.org> wrote:
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>>(also posted to debian-ppc)
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>>Hi everyone,
>>
>>I recently installed sarge testing onto my powerbook G3. (which
>>previously ran woody/stable quite well, albeit with old packages..)
>>
>>i have most things working, however there seems to be no compiler!
>>I noticed that when i installed that there was no option for
>>development stuff 
>>in tasksel... could this have been forshadowing of what was to come?
>>
>>i noticed that gcc-3.3-base was installed, but the actual compiler
>>collection 
>>was not..
>>
>>so after an apt-get install gcc-3.3 i am left with a bunch of dpkg
>>errors...
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>The #debian topic on freenode is has a message about this error right
>now.
>
>Copied from the topic:
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>| BROKEN: gcc (#268338) use apt-get -o DPkg::Options="--force-overwrite"
>install gcc; libapr0 (#266165) |
>
>Affects sarge, but not sid. see http://bugs.debian.org/268338 for more
>information, but the information from the topic should be all you need.
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>
thanks for the info.
an  `apt-get -f install` a little later that night fixed everything!

dylan