add/remove software

Peter Garrett peter.garrett at optusnet.com.au
Sun Jan 21 04:54:17 UTC 2007


On Sat, 20 Jan 2007 22:50:26 -0500
Erik Schmidt <eschmidt90 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Package libc6-dev is not available, but is referred to by another
> package.
> This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
> is only available from another source
> However the following packages replace it:
>   libdb2-dev
> E: Package libc6-dev has no installation candidate

Try

sudo apt-get install build-essential

Alternatively, install  libdb2-dev , since the message says it replaces
libc6-dev :)

But I think you will find "build-esssential" gets what you need: 

apt-cache depends build-essential             to see, or
apt-cache show build-essential

Peter




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