[Resolved] Re: How do I reinstall gcc/g++?

[NoOp]

On 02/19/2011 05:37 PM, Neil Cherry wrote:
> On 02/16/2011 04:11 PM, NoOp wrote:
...
>> You said you reinstalled; did you try?
>> 
>> $ sudo apt-get install --reinstall gcc-4.4
>> 
>> You may have to also reinstall 'gcc-4.4-base' - but I think reinstalling
>> gcc-4-4 should pull in base.
> 
> First I want to thank everyone who helped me, big THANKS. :-)
> 
> It's now working and here's how I fixed it:
> 
> I grabbed the deb files for cpp, gcc and g++ and reinstalled them. No amount
> of reinstall worked. Ubuntu likes to use a lot or indirection (links to things)
> and most of the packages are basically empty except for the links. I really
> don't appreciate the level of obfuscation this causes. It's very annoying.
> 
...

Glad you got it sorted out. I'm still curious as to how/what the results
where when you attempted to reinstal via apt-get. I don't suppose that
you kept logs/files from that?