Re: An apt-get question

On 24/11/14 00:57, Allan Duncan wrote:

As far as I can tell -4.6 is the "official" cpp and the other ones are add-ons. I expected (erroneously) that installing -4.8 in isolation would do the symbolic links and advertise itself as cpp. All three are there in synaptic's table of available packages.

Debian generally makes the primary package (e.g., gcc) depend on a specific version, e.g., gcc-4.8. The apt-get show command should reveal the dependencies.