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Martin Drozdik
Asked: 2014-02-23 21:20:16 +0800 CST

Why does apt-get want to remove gcc-4.8 and g++-4.8 when I try to upgrade?

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I am trying to upgrade gcc-4.8.1 and g++-4.8.1 to 4.8.2. I added the PPA containing g++-4.8.2, ran apt-get update and then when I try:

martin@martin-Studio-1537:~$ sudo apt-get upgrade
[sudo] password for martin: 
...
The following packages have been kept back:
  cpp-4.8 g++-4.8 gcc-4.8 gcc-4.8-base libasan0 libatomic1 libgcc-4.8-dev
  libgcc1 libgcc1-dbg libgfortran3 libgomp1 libitm1 libquadmath0
  libstdc++-4.8-dev libstdc++6 libstdc++6-4.8-dbg
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 16 not upgraded.

the packages I need to upgrade are kept back. When I try:

martin@martin-Studio-1537:~$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
...
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  g++-4.8 gcc-4.8
The following packages will be upgraded:
  cpp-4.8 gcc-4.8-base libasan0 libatomic1 libgcc-4.8-dev libgcc1 libgcc1-dbg
  libgfortran3 libgomp1 libitm1 libquadmath0 libstdc++-4.8-dev libstdc++6
  libstdc++6-4.8-dbg
14 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 2 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 14.9 MB of archives.
After this operation, 32.4 MB disk space will be freed.

the system wants to remove g++-4.8 gcc-4.8.

When I try to install gcc-4.8 from Synaptic It wants to remove g++-4.8 and when I tell that it is ok to remove it, I get this error:

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How can I install gcc-4.8.2 and g++-4.8.2?

EDIT:

As souravc suggested, I did

martin@martin-Studio-1537:~$ dpkg -l | grep "^rc" | awk '{print $2}'

and this is the result:

autoconf
bcmwl-kernel-source
dkms
lib64gcc1
libbotan-1.10-0
libc6-amd64
libc6-x32
libpcrecpp0:i386
libqt5clucene5:i386
libqt5declarative5:i386
libqt5designer5:i386
libqt5designercomponents5:i386
libqt5help5:i386
libqt5quickparticles5:i386
libqt5quicktest5:i386
libqt5script5:i386
libsigsegv2:i386
libx32gcc1
libx32stdc++6
linux-image-3.11.0-12-generic
linux-image-3.11.0-15-generic
linux-image-extra-3.11.0-12-generic
linux-image-extra-3.11.0-15-generic
usb-creator-gtk
apt

2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    gcc 4.8.2 is currently under development and will only be released for trusty(14.04LTS).

    The current latest version available for Ubuntu 13.10 saucy is 4.8.1 and it will not be updated to 4.8.2

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  2. You are getting this message as you have broken packages in your system. To be sure try this in your terminal,

    dpkg -l | grep "^rc" | awk '{print $2}'

    You should get a list showing above packages.

    Run the following in a terminal to get rid of this,

    sudo apt-get autoremove
sudo apt-get autoclean

    To install gcc-4.8 and g++-4.8

    sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install gcc-4.8 g++-4.8
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