add/remove software

[Erik Schmidt]

here is the message I get from that:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information       
Initializing package states... Done
Building tag database... Done      
No candidate version found for build-essential
The following packages have been kept back:
  openoffice.org openoffice.org-base openoffice.org-calc 
  openoffice.org-core openoffice.org-draw openoffice.org-evolution 
  openoffice.org-gnome openoffice.org-gtk openoffice.org-impress 
  openoffice.org-math openoffice.org-writer python-uno 
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 12 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
Writing extended state information... Done


On Sun, 2007-01-21 at 19:48 +0100, Mario Vukelic wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-01-21 at 13:35 -0500, Erik Schmidt wrote:
> > "no packages found matching build-essentials"
> 
> Did you install build-essential as was recommended?
> 
> sudo aptitude install build-essential
> 
> (note: -essential, not -essentials). Or use Synaptic to do the same.
>                ^^^              ^^^
> 
>