Michael,

You need the correct name of the package for the installer to find it.

When you need to find correct package names, go to https://www.debian.org/distrib/packages#search_packages on the Debian web site. Search for package names, or names of files that are in packages. It will give you a list of packages and you can click on them to see a description of the package, the dependencies, all the files in a package, etc.

For example, if I search on the package name libgmp in all distributions of Debian (ie testing, experimental, stable, etc.) there are 18 packages with the characters 'libgmp' in the name. But there is no package libgmp. There are packages libgmp-dev, libgmp-doc, etc. You can pick the one you want according to your distribution, then use apt-get install with the correct package name.

libmpfr.a is a file in the package libmpfr-dev. libmpc.a is a file in the libmpc-dev package. I didn't find libmpfr.la or libmpc.la as file names in any packages.

You need to set up your sources.list to specify the distribution you are running: stable, testing, experimental, etc. Then the installer (apt-get in your case) will find the package you want in the distribution you are using.

Take a look at https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch02.en.html to learn about the Debian package management system.

Mark

On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 9:49 PM, Michael Havens <bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:

oops.... I was inspecting version-check.sh script and notice that in line 33 what it said was 'glibc'  all of the other checked programs were '<program> --version |head -n1' so I made it like that and the output said I did not have that program either. So I googled for it and as with  libgmp.la libmpfr.la libmpc.la I couldn't find anything. I found pages that said something like 'how to install a current version ' but one of the requirements was an old version of the program. Here is an idea.... I could scp the program from a computer with the programs.
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unfortunately they aren't there.

:-)~MIKE~(-:

On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 9:02 PM, Michael Havens <bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:

it found mpc. but, unfortunately, version-check.sh doesn't say it installed libmpc.la .

:-)~MIKE~(-:

On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 8:37 PM, Michael Havens <bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:

I ran the version-check script and some packages were installed and some not. I installed most of them but there were some that would not install. Google didn't help so I must ask here what package do I need to install to  get these libraries?

root@debian:~# apt-get install libgmp libmpfr.la libmpc.la
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree      
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package libgmp
E: Unable to locate package libmpfr.la
E: Couldn't find any package by regex 'libmpfr.la'
E: Unable to locate package libmpc.la
E: Couldn't find any package by regex 'libmpc.la'
root@debian:~# apt-get install regex
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree      
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package regex
root@debian:~# apt-get install libgmp
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree      
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package libgmp
root@debian:~# apt-get install libmpfr.la
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree      
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package libmpfr.la
E: Couldn't find any package by regex 'libmpfr.la'
root@debian:~# apt-get install libmpc.la
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree      
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package libmpc.la
E: Couldn't find any package by regex 'libmpc.la'
root@debian:~#

:-)~MIKE~(-:

On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 7:11 PM, Michael Havens <bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:

hello plug. well you helped me get ssh to work across networks so that now I can build an LFS OS on another computer as opposed to on another partition or onto a virtual machine. I installed Debian as the host OS to build LFS on. All is well except it falls asleep after five minutes and I can't compile things if it is going to fall asleep in the middle of the build. So I googled for a solution and found:

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In the /etc/default/grub, modify the GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT to look like this:

$ GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=acpi=off apm=off

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Well that is good except  on the debian system it reads:

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet"

I think the 'quiet' merely tells it not to print any boot text so I can just delete it but I am unsure. However, if I want to keep it quiet would I make it like so:

$ GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet" acpi=off apm=off

???????????
:-)~MIKE~(-:

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