ubuntu command

[Alan Mckinnon]

On Thu, 2006-08-24 at 11:08 +0200, Patrick Delport wrote:



> Hi There I have found a ubuntu tutorial on howtoforge.com and on page
> 4 there is a command “apt-get install binutils cpp cpp-4.0 fetchmail
> flex gcc gcc-4.0 libarchive-zip-perl libc6-dev libcompress-zlib-perl
> libdb4.3-dev libpcre3 libpopt-dev linux-kernel-headers lynx m4 make
> ncftp nmap openssl perl perl-modules unzip zip zlib1g-dev autoconf
> automake1.9 libtool bison autotools-dev”…I cant get this command to
> work..i have been told it mite be a dependency problem an dthat I
> could install it 1 by 1.

Possibly one of two things:

1. You are trying to run it as a user, which won't work, it has to be
run as root. You have to put "sudo" in front of the howl thing like so:

"sudo apt-get install binutils cpp ....."

When it asks for a password, supply your own user password

2. One of those package is named wrongly, or can;t be installed or
whatever. Do this:

sudo apt-get install binutils
sudo apt-get install cpp

etc, etc through the whole list.

alan

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