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

[Neil Cherry]

On 02/19/2011 10:08 PM, NoOp wrote:
> 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?

I'm uncertain of which logs they would be in. Though I would think
that by now it would be a confusing mess as I've reinstalled, removed,
and added the various packages server times over.

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