On Sun, 2 Jan 2005 20:12:09 -0800 James Thogmartin wrote: > /bin/sh: c++: command not found > > I am running debian 3.0, with the 2.2.20 kernel, and after doing a search > for 'c++' I found that I don't have it. However, when I looked for it using > apt-get, c++ brought up thousands of results.. does anyone know what debian > package I need to get in order for c++ to work? I heard it's a compiler, and > that cpp will do the same thing, (and I have cpp) so I tried making an alias > for cpp by doing 'alias c++='cpp' ' but that didn't work, because after I > ran make World, I got the same exact error. > Since we're talking about C++ here, I can presume that what's on my plain ol' Debian Sid should be the same as what you're looking for on your Debian stable. gsewell@grants:~$ whereis c++ c++: /usr/bin/c++ /usr/include/c++ /usr/share/man/man1/c++.1.gz gsewell@grants:~$ ll /usr/bin/c++ lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 2004-10-20 17:49 /usr/bin/c++ -> /etc/alternatives/c++ gsewell@grants:~$ ll /etc/alternatives/c++ lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 2004-11-14 23:20 /etc/alternatives/c++ -> /usr/bin/g++ gsewell@grants:~$ apt-cache --names-only search g++|grep -i "g++" g++ - The GNU C++ compiler g++-2.95 - The GNU C++ compiler g++-3.2 - The GNU C++ compiler g++-3.3 - The GNU C++ compiler g++-3.4 - The GNU C++ compiler gcc-2.95-doc - Documentation for the GNU compilers (gcc, gobjc, g++) gcc-3.2-doc - Documentation for the GNU compilers (gcc, gobjc, g++) gcc-3.3-doc - Documentation for the GNU compilers (gcc, gobjc, g++) gcc-3.4-doc - Documentation for the GNU compilers (gcc, gobjc, g++) gcc-doc - Documentation for the GNU C compilers (gcc, gobjc, g++) libg++2.8.1.3-dbg - The GNU C++ extension library - debugging files libg++2.8.1.3-dev - The GNU C++ extension library - development files libg++2.8.1.3-glibc2.2 - The GNU C++ extension library - runtime version libg++27 - The GNU C++ libraries (libc5 version) libg++27-altdev - The GNU C++ libraries (libc5 version) pocketpc-g++ - The GNU C++ compiler for Pocket PC The programme "/usr/bin/c++" is a symbolic link to "/etc/alternatives/c++", which is a symbolic link to "/usr/bin/g++", which is provided by the package "g++". I am unsure of the current version in stable. Hope this helps. Grant. -- Unix: Some say the learning curve is steep, but you only have to climb it once. _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
