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Soumya Pawar
Soumya Pawar

Reputation: 37

error while installing gcc on ubuntu 14.04.3

I recently installed Ubuntu and I want to start coding in C and C++.

I have gdb and gcc files on my desktop.

I am getting this error while trying to install the above:

soumya@soumya-VirtualBox:~/Desktop$ sudo dpkg -i libstdc++6-4.7-dev_4.7.3-1ubuntu1_amd64
[sudo] password for soumya: 
dpkg-split: error: error reading libstdc++6-4.7-dev_4.7.3-1ubuntu1_amd64: Is a directory
dpkg: error processing archive libstdc++6-4.7-dev_4.7.3-1ubuntu1_amd64 (--install):
 subprocess dpkg-split returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
 libstdc++6-4.7-dev_4.7.3-1ubuntu1_amd64

I have all the files on the desktop. What should I do?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2507

Answers (1)

HDJEMAI
HDJEMAI

Reputation: 9810

In the message, we clearly see that libstdc++6-4.7-dev_4.7.3-1ubuntu1_amd64 is a directory and not a file in your case.

So you have to provide a file.

To answer your question, when I installed Ubuntu for the first time, I found the gcc already installed

I just typed gcc -v and i got:

gcc version 4.8.4 (Ubuntu 4.8.4-2ubuntu1~14.04)

If for any reason you don't have access to gcc and in order to install it in ubuntu, you will need the build-essential package.

Build-essential contains a list of packages which are essential for building Ubuntu packages including gcc compiler, make and other required tools.

Just go like this:

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get upgrade
$ sudo apt-get install build-essential

Look at this page you will get instructions to install gcc.

After doing so, you will have access to gcc and g++ compilers

Upvotes: 1

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