So I downloaded damnsmall 6.3, did the hdinstall-- enhanced-- and dpkg restore. Changed to testing, did dselect update. went apt-get install make gcc, done. got a w3m tar.gz, untarred it, looked good. ran ./configure, got "cpp fails sanity check" . did entire procedure twice. I must compile this thing,debian package has emacs keymapping and zile, I want lynx and vi...Any ideas?i ran into the same problem as dlh222222. ( cpp fails sanity check) I installed dsl 6.3 hdinstall (enhanced) changed sources.list to testing I tried to compile ettercap NG_0.7.0_pre1
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configure: error: C preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails sanity check
When you do the sources.list change, make sure you do apt-get update first, so that it gets the fresh lists from the Testing server. Then again, you're all probably non-n00bs who already knew that, unlike me, who didn't the first few times...Hi,
I am having a similar problem with installing the routines required to be able to 'make' applications.
I have changed the 'sources.list' file to use the 'testing' method and re-run 'apt-get update'
When I try to install the necessary for make I get:
boot@box:/etc/apt# apt-get install make gcc Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following extra packages will be installed: binutils cpp-2.95 fileutils gcc-2.95 Suggested packages: manpages-dev automake flex gdb gcc-2.95-doc task-devel-common Recommended packages: libc-dev The following new packages will be installed: binutils cpp2.95 fileutils gcc gcc-2.95 make 0 upgraded, 6 newly installed, 0 to remove and 121 not upgraded Need to get 3893kB of archives. After unpacking 9859kB of additional space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y Get:1 http://ftp.us.debian.org stable/main fileutils 4.1-10 [710kb] Get:2 http://ftp.us.debian.org stable/main binutils 2.12.90.0.1-4 [1711kb] Get:3 http://ftp.us.debian.org stable/main cpp-2.95 1:2.95.4-11woody1 [129kb] Get:4 http://ftp.us.debian.org stable/main gcc-2.95 1:2.95.4-11woody1 [952kb] Get:5 http://ftp.us.debian.org stable/main gcc 2:2.95.4-14 [3420kb] Get:6 http://ftp.us.debian.org stable/main make 3.79.1-14 [386kb] Fetched 3893kB in 1m25s (45.6kB/s) Preconfiguring packages ... (Reading database ... 10576 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking fileutils (from .../fileutils_4.1-10_i386.deb ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/fileutils_4.1-10_i386.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite 'bin/chgrp', which is also in package coreutils dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/fileutils_4.1-10_i386.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dkpg returned an error code (1)
Any help much appreciated.
GeoffWhen I did make gcc after changing the list source to testing and immediately doing an update to get the proper list, the install completed and was gcc version 3.3. So 2.95 doesn't look right...Next Page...
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