Installing AVR tools on Linspire - apt-get not working

[dksmall]

I'm trying to following the AVR totorial on this site and am stuck on step 1. The command "apt-get install flex byacc bison gcc libusb libusb-dev" returns the following error.

# apt-get install flex byacc bison gcc libusb libusb-dev
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Package flex is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
E: Package flex has no installation candidate

What can I do to install these utilities on LinSpire 5.0?? Thanks!!!

[adafruit]

you may want to look at your distribution documentation or ask on the forums/mailing list for that distro. the instructions are kinda ubuntu-focused, your distro may have slightly different methods of installing packages..

[dksmall]

you may want to look at your distribution documentation or ask on the forums/mailing list for that distro. the instructions are kinda ubuntu-focused, your distro may have slightly different methods of installing packages..

Sorry for the wrong forum, I couldn't follow your naming convention.

Geez I hate to be the total newbie but how do I do what you're describing? What's a distro? Something to do with distribution I'm guessing?

thanks!

[adafruit]

distro is short for distribution
linspire is, i assume, a linux distribution.

[dksmall]

distro is short for distribution
linspire is, i assume, a linux distribution.

Yes, it's Linux based. I can do an install with ./configure, make, make install, but this app-get is what's confusing. I'll post to the LinSpire support and see what they say, thanks!

[dksmall]

Ok I'm making progress. I have the developer tools installed and binutils. When I tried to install GCC as AVRGCC, I ran into a new problem. make CC="cc -no-cpp-precomp" did not work, complaining that the "-no-cpp-precomp" was unknown. So I did "make" without any options, but it still complained about the "-no-cpp-precomp". Tried "make clean", then "make" and still got errors concerning "-no-cpp-precomp". What can I do now??

[adafruit]

please read more carefully, it is --no-cpp-precomp not -no-cpp-precomp

[dksmall]

please read more carefully, it is --no-cpp-precomp not -no-cpp-precomp

Hmmm, here's a cut&paste right out of your tutorial

Once the configuration is done, compile gcc.
type: make CC="cc -no-cpp-precomp" <return>

Note: It seems like the -no-cpp-precomp may not be a good idea, if you are having problems maybe leave it off

?

I also pasted it into the terminal window when I was executing commands. I don't see two dashes, only one dash. Assuming that's the only difference, I will try that and see what happens. Thanks for your time with this!!!!

[adafruit]

!!!

sorry about that, i have fixed it...let me know if it works now

[dksmall]

!!!

sorry about that, i have fixed it...let me know if it works now

Still no go. If I leave off "-no-cpp-precomp" do I simply do "make", or do I still need cc, so it would be make CC="cc" ???????


here's the last part of the run:

cc-4.2.2/gcc/config/avr/avr.opt > tmp-optionlist
/bin/sh ../../gcc-4.2.2/gcc/../move-if-change tmp-optionlist optionlist
echo timestamp > s-options
gawk -f ../../gcc-4.2.2/gcc/opt-functions.awk -f ../../gcc-4.2.2/gcc/opth-gen.awk \
< optionlist > tmp-options.h
/bin/sh ../../gcc-4.2.2/gcc/../move-if-change tmp-options.h options.h
echo timestamp > s-options-h
TARGET_CPU_DEFAULT="" \
HEADERS="auto-host.h ansidecl.h" DEFINES="" \
/bin/sh ../../gcc-4.2.2/gcc/mkconfig.sh bconfig.h
gcc -c -g -O2 -DIN_GCC -DCROSS_COMPILE -W -Wall -Wwrite-strings -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -pedantic -Wno-long-long -Wno-variadic-macros -Wno-overlength-strings -Wold-style-definition -Wmissing-format-attribute -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DGENERATOR_FILE -I. -Ibuild -I../../gcc-4.2.2/gcc -I../../gcc-4.2.2/gcc/build -I../../gcc-4.2.2/gcc/../include -I../../gcc-4.2.2/gcc/../libcpp/include -I../../gcc-4.2.2/gcc/../libdecnumber -I../libdecnumber -o build/errors.o ../../gcc-4.2.2/gcc/errors.c
build/genmodes -h > tmp-modes.h
/bin/sh: build/genmodes: No such file or directory
make[2]: *** [s-modes-h] Error 127
make[2]: Leaving directory `/opt/avrgcc-4.2/gcc'
make[1]: *** [all-gcc] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/opt/avrgcc-4.2'
make: *** [all] Error 2
/opt/avrgcc-4.2#

[adafruit]

are you doing
make CC="cc --no-cpp-precomp" <return>

[dksmall]

are you doing
make CC="cc --no-cpp-precomp" <return>

Yes, also tried

make
make CC="cc"

same results each time. I would also do "make distclean" when I start over.