apt-get install gcc-g++ fails because ++ is removed.

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 01:17:16PM -0400, Sy Ali wrote:
> No, nothing odd.  I checked my processes and it's bash.
> 
> bash --version
> GNU bash, version 3.1.17(1)-release (i586-mandriva-linux-gnu)
> Copyright (C) 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> 
> I could compare this to a previous installation where ++ did work for
> me.  Maybe it's a bash issue and a version change could help me learn
> more?

Which debian version?

Is there even a gcc-g++ package?  Debian has gcc and g++ but no gcc-g++

And for apt-cache which does regex I have to do:

apt-cache search g\\+\\+
or
apt-cache search 'g\+\+'

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