add/remove software

[Erik Schmidt]

Yes, I typed updateb first

I am using 6.10

the results for $ dpkg --list build-essential are:

"no packages found matching build-essentials"

the results for  dpkg --list '*libc6*':

Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
|
Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err:
uppercase=bad)
||/ Name           Version        Description
+++-==============-==============-============================================
un  libapt-inst-li <none>         (no description available)
un  libapt-pkg-lib <none>         (no description available)
ii  libc6          2.4-1ubuntu12  GNU C Library: Shared libraries
un  libc6-bin      <none>         (no description available)
un  libc6-dev      <none>         (no description available)
un  libc6-dev-ppc6 <none>         (no description available)
un  libc6-doc      <none>         (no description available)
un  libc6.1        <none>         (no description available)


On Sun, 2007-01-21 at 18:19 +0000, Andy wrote:
> On 21/01/07, Erik Schmidt <eschmidt90 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > when I type "locate 'stdio.h'", it gives me the location of the file
> > nostdio.h and its in a perl folder
> 
> that's not the file you need. Just to make sure, you did do 'sudo
> updatedb' first?
> 
> Can you type:
> $ dpkg --list build-essential
> 
> then
> $ dpkg --list '*libc6*'
> 
> Look for a lines that mention libc6 and libc6-dev,
> if they start ii they are installed
> if they start un they're not.
> Anything else then they may be partially installed.
> 
> 
> Main should be enabled to start with.
> 
> Sorry if you allready told us this but what version of Ubuntu are you
> using? 6.06 or 6.10?
> 
> 
> 
> _ Andy
>