build-essential broken

[UbuntuUser]

I have been trying to get php-apd working, but it requires a c/c++ compiler. I had previously installed gcc, but when I run the installer, it get the following problem:

18 source files, building
running: phpize
Configuring for:
PHP Api Version:         20020918
Zend Module Api No:      20020429
Zend Extension Api No:   20021010
building in /var/tmp/pear-build-root/apd-0.9.1
running: /tmp/tmpasGKuR/apd-0.9.1/configure
checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnulibc1
checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnulibc1
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name... configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables
See `config.log' for more details.
`/tmp/tmpasGKuR/apd-0.9.1/configure' failed

After doing some research, I came to understand I should just install build-essentials, but when I run "apt-get install build-essential", I get this error:

Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.

Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
that package should be filed.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  build-essential: Depends: libc6-dev but it is not going to be installed or
                            libc-dev
                   Depends: g++ (>= 3:3.3) but it is not going to be installed

It looks like my libc may be outdated, but I can't seem to get it to upgrade (I have run apt-get update followed by apt-get upgrade and it says I'm up-to-date).

Thanks for any help!

[djhobo9]

Well you may have (and probably did already try this), but it's fixed *most* of my broken package problems...

# apt-get -f install

If that doesn't help....

# apt-get install g++-3.3

All things considered, I've come back from a far longer list of broken deps... for me it's just been installing the dependencies in the right order. If you've already done this, sorry, but I guess any suggestion is better than none .