gnutella compile error

[shaggyman87]

Hey I'm trying to compile gnutella -0.96.3 on etch. I've gotten through most of the problems, but this last one had got me stumped.

Use which C compiler? [cc] gcc

Checking for GNU cc in disguise and/or its version number...

*** WHOA THERE!!! ***
Your C compiler "gcc" doesn't seem to be working!
You'd better start hunting for one and let me know about it.

I have gcc installed. I don't know what to make of the error and there's not much description to help me solve it. Any ideas. Thankx.

[objuan]

hi
what do you get when you type gcc -v at the prompt.

[antidrugue]

Why not just install it like that ?

apt-get install gtk-gnutella

I understand the Etch version is 0.96.1, but does that really matter ?

[shaggyman87]

Snooze:/# gcc -v
Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-linux/3.3.5/specs
Configured with: ../src/configure -v --enable-languages=c,c++,java,f77,pascal,objc,ada,treelang --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/include/c++/3.3 --enable-shared --enable-__cxa_atexit --with-system-zlib --enable-nls --without-included-gettext --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-debug --enable-java-gc=boehm --enable-java-awt=xlib --enable-objc-gc i486-linux
Thread model: posix
gcc version 3.3.5 (Debian 1:3.3.5-13)

Well I tried installing it from the debian sources and I was able to get it to run, but I couldn't connect to any sources. Now I've never used Gnutella before so maybe I wasn't doing it correctly. I found a tutorial online on how to use, but everytime I enter an ip address nothing happened and the connection was lost.

I then decided to try to install the latest version and see if that helped.

[antidrugue]

Then make sure you have the package build-essential installed.

[shaggyman87]

I've tried downloading build-essential, but I get a lot of errors ranging from package xyz is not availiable to need a newer version of package abc.

[antidrugue]

Just:

apt-get install build-essential

doesn't work?

[shaggyman87]

No it gives me this:

Snooze:~# apt-get install build-essential
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these:
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
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution)

and when I try to install libc6-dev i get:

Snooze:~# apt-get install libc6-dev
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
libc6-dev: Depends: libc6 (= 2.3.2.ds1-22sarge5) but 2.3.6.ds1-13 is to be installed
Depends: linux-kernel-headers but it is not going to be installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution)

Something wrong with my version of libc6. I don't know if its the version of etch I have or the depositories. Because a lot of programs want the other version of libc6, but that's the not the version avaliable. I have (I believe) libc6_2.3.6 installed.

[Vergil83]

what happens when you run apt-get -f install?

[shaggyman87]

Right now apt-get install libc6-dev gives me this:

Snooze:~# apt-get install libc6-dev
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
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:
libc6-dev: Depends: libc6 (= 2.3.2.ds1-22sarge5) but 2.3.6.ds1-13 is to be installed
E: Broken package

The reason it suggested doing apt-get -f install before is because I had a broken package, fglrx..., on my computer and it wanted me to get rid of it. Fglrx does not show up in the output of the apt-get install libc6-dev which I posted above because I deleted it. Fglrx wasn't the problem, it was just something I was trying to get to work. Sorry for the confusion. Anyway this is what apt-get -f install produces.

Snooze:~# apt-get -f install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded