On 22.11.14 22:56, Allan Duncan wrote:
I figured I could tell apt-get to forget about cpp and just get on with it (ie --nodeps in rpm), but it doesn't seem to have such an option.
Though using nothing else for the last decade or so, I haven't experienced apt-get insisting on an older version than is installed. Does the problem go away if your pre-installation of cpp 4.8 is also performed by apt-get, rather than some other application being used to confuse/corrupt knowledge of the installed base? What happens if you just apt-get install libtool, then apt-get install cpp? Even if the former installs cpp 4.6, then the latter will upgrade to 4.8, achieving the desired outcome, I figure. Erik -- Melbourne Water Use: "More water is lost to stormwater each year than we use. On average we use about 40 billion litres of water each year, and each year about 500 billion litres runs into our drains." Leonie Duncan, Environment Victoria healthy river campaigner, quoted on p7 of Journal 21.10.08. But what the heck, with the N-S Pipeline, we can take water from the foodbowl.