How do I reinstall gcc/g++?

[Neil Cherry]

On 02/16/2011 03:04 PM, NoOp wrote:
> On 02/16/2011 10:07 AM, Neil Cherry wrote:
>> Somehow my gcc/cpp/g++ are linked to nothing:
>>
>> $ ls -l /usr/bin/gcc*
>> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 2011-02-16 13:05 /usr/bin/gcc -> gcc-4.4
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2011-02-16 12:40 /usr/bin/gcc-4.4
>>
>> and no amount of removing, purging or reinstalling is fixing it. How
>> do I get this fixed?
>>
> 
> Looks to me like it's linked to the proper file: /urs/bin/gcc-4-4. Or am
> I misunderstanding?
> 
> $ ls -l /usr/bin/gcc*
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      7 2011-01-20 14:05 /usr/bin/gcc -> gcc-4.4
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 194128 2010-05-27 02:00 /usr/bin/gcc-4.1
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 193212 2009-01-10 11:18 /usr/bin/gcc-4.2
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 212168 2010-09-10 02:16 /usr/bin/gcc-4.3
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 224488 2010-09-27 11:43 /usr/bin/gcc-4.4
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  16280 2010-05-27 01:58 /usr/bin/gccbug-4.1
> 
> $ apt-cache policy gcc
> gcc:
>   Installed: 4:4.4.4-1ubuntu2
>   Candidate: 4:4.4.4-1ubuntu2
>   Version table:
>  *** 4:4.4.4-1ubuntu2 0
>         500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick/main i386 Packages
>         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

It's linked to the correct gcc-4.4 but gcc-4.4 has zero length.

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