I was trying to upgrade gcc-4.8.1 to gcc-4.8.2 using Synaptic from this PPA. The installation executed with no problem, but suddenly I had no gcc-4.8 at all. I was using gcc-4.7 and gcc-4.8 together, but only 4.7 is left for some reason. Then I tried to reinstall gcc-4.8 using apt-get install but I got unmet dependencies errors. I tried to solve this problem using the answers to this question, but to no avail.
sudo apt-get install gcc-4.8
results in:
...
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
gcc-4.8 : Depends: binutils (>= 2.23.90.20131017) but
2.23.52.20130913-0ubuntu1 is to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
Here are the outputs of:
martin@martin-Studio-1537:~$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu saucy main universe restricted multiverse
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ saucy-security main universe restricted multiverse
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu saucy-updates main universe restricted multiverse
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu saucy-proposed main universe restricted multiverse
deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu saucy main universe restricted multiverse #Added by software-properties
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-toolchain-r/test/ubuntu saucy main
and
martin@martin-Studio-1537:~$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/*
# deb http://download.mendeley.com/apt/ stable main
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/p12/qtcreator/ubuntu saucy main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/p12/qtcreator/ubuntu saucy main
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/p12/qtcreator/ubuntu saucy main
# deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/p12/qtcreator/ubuntu saucy main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-toolchain-r/test/ubuntu saucy main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-toolchain-r/test/ubuntu saucy main
# deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/webupd8team/y-ppa-manager/ubuntu saucy main
# deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/webupd8team/y-ppa-manager/ubuntu saucy main
# deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/webupd8team/y-ppa-manager/ubuntu saucy main
# deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/webupd8team/y-ppa-manager/ubuntu saucy main
I tried to repeat the suggestions in the answers after disabling all PPAs and then again with the gcc-4.8.2 PPA enabled and I still cannot install gcc-4.8.2.
What did I do wrong and how can I fix my system?
EDIT:
I tried
martin@martin-Studio-1537:~$ sudo apt-get install -f
[sudo] password for martin:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
and then
sudo apt-get update
but the result is the same.
I tried everything in this answer with the exception of purging or removing PPAs.
EDIT2:
I followed instructions from searchforgold6789's answer and it did work! I successfully installed gcc-4.8.1. But when I added the PPA again and tried to upgrade, I got the following output:
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
The following packages will be upgraded:
libcloog-isl4 libisl10
2 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 16 not upgraded.
EDIT3:
When I do a apt-get dist-upgrade it suggests that g++-4.8 gcc-4.8 should be removed. Why is this so? Should I proceed? I think this was the reason I got into this trouble in the first place.
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.
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