[Neurodebian-users] matlab-spm8 fails to install due to missing gcc

[Holger Krause]

Am Montag, 25. Juli 2011 schrieb Yaroslav Halchenko:
> Hi Holger,
> 
> thanks for the report
> 
> I guess we should indeed recommend (or even depend) on unversioned gcc
> package as well since now we have only
> 
> Recommends: libstdc++6-4.4-dev | libstdc++-dev
> 
> which should have pulled in the corresponding versioned gcc... what do
> you have for
> 
> /bin/ls /usr/bin/gcc*

11:07:44 krause at metta:~$ /bin/ls /usr/bin/gcc*
/usr/bin/gcc-4.4

> 
> and
> 
> dpkg -l gcc*

11:08:08 krause at metta:~$ dpkg -l gcc*
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Cfg-files/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name                                    Version                            
Description
+++-=======================================-
=======================================-
==============================================================================================
un  gcc                                     <none>                                  
(no description available)
ii  gcc-4.4                                 4.4.3-4ubuntu5                          
The GNU C compiler
ii  gcc-4.4-base                            4.4.3-4ubuntu5                          
The GNU Compiler Collection (base package)
un  gcc-4.4-doc                             <none>                                  
(no description available)
un  gcc-4.4-locales                         <none>                                  
(no description available)
un  gcc-4.4-multilib                        <none>                                  
(no description available)

(Sorry for the linebreaks.)

I installed the unversioned gcc package, during this "matlab-spm8" was 
successfully configured. Letting "matlab-support" depend on "gcc", seemingly 
would avoid this problem.

Thank you for maintaining neurodebian!

Holger