problems installing g++ hardy heron

[Marius Gedminas]

On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 05:15:24PM +0200, Bram Kuijper wrote:
> I am trying to install g++ on a fresh install of hardy heron. How can I 
> avoid bash eating away my operators?
> 
> sudo apt-get install g++
> 
> it says:
> 
> couldn't find package g
> 
> apparently bash sees the +-es as an operator. So I tried also:
> 
> sudo apt-get install g\+\+
> sudo apt-get install "g++"
> 
> with the same response:
> couldn't find package g

This is weird.  What is your system locale?  (The 'locale' command
prints your settings.)

I'm blindly guessing that perhaps a broken locale might cause '+' to be
misclassified as a whitespace character, or something.

> what should I do to install g++?

'sudo apt-get install g++' works for me.  You could try aptitude or
synaptic and select g++ from the list.

Marius Gedminas
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