Issue with gcc on Beagle Bone Black with Debian 4.6.3-14

[Tom Coyle]

Hi All,

Linus and I were trying to get the following to install on a BBB Debian:

sudo apt-get install gawk gcc-arm-linux-gnueabihf g++-arm-linux-gnueabihf

The install failed when it could not find gneabihf: E: Unable to locate package gcc-arm-linux-gnueabihf

We tried doing an update to the Debian, but no joy.

The version of gcc (Debian 4.6.3-14) 4.6.3 on the BBB

Comments?

Regards,

Tom C AVD

[Chris Anderson]

I think you need GCC 4.8 or above. 

-c

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[Tom Coyle]

Hi Chris,

Agreed, but we could not get gcc to update and do not know why.

Regards,

Tom C AVD

[Curtis Olson]

Off the top of my head, the next thing I would try is to run "apt-cache search <string>" where <string> is something like "gcc" or "gcc-arm-linux" to see what packages are available to install.  Maybe they've named the package a bit differently, or it's just not available in that distribution?

Regards,

Curt.

[Tom Coyle]

Hi Curt,

Unfortunately gcc version 4.8 or 4.9 is not in the Debian essential build. It appears to be v4.7.

It looks like I will have to install the latest version of gcc by itself which, since I am not a Linux programmer by any means, will require help from the outside.

Regards,

Tom C AVD

[David Pawlak]

Linus should be up to that :p

[linus]

hehe good point.
banging our heads harder on to the keyboard indeed fixed the problem.

Its well documented here as well

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/drones-discuss/2J20SvyY78g/OZuGo-QaANQJ

Cheers
Linus