Cannot install build-essential package

Hi ashthespy

As I recall I downloaded the latest Volumio and wrote it to a card (with balenaEtcher), booted up and went through the setup screens in the UI, enabled SSH, then logged in and ran the following commands (with the second command failing due to build-essential)

sudo apt update
sudo apt install build-essential git-core autoconf make libtool libfftw3-dev libmpdclient-dev libi2c-dev i2c-tools lm-sensors

Here is the output of the commands you posted

volumio@volumio15:~$ grep -r --include '*.list' '^deb ' /etc/apt/sources.list*
/etc/apt/sources.list:deb http://archive.volumio.org/raspbian/ jessie main contrib non-free rpi
/etc/apt/sources.list.d/raspi.list:deb http://archive.volumio.org/debian/ jessie main ui
volumio@volumio15:~$ apt-cache policy build-essential
build-essential:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 11.7
  Version table:
     11.7 0
        500 http://archive.volumio.org/raspbian/ jessie/main armhf Packages

Adrian.

That looks sane. Then there is something going fishy going on with the new jessie images…

As a sanity check could you check what is the libc version installed?

sudo dpkg -l | grep libc

Hi ashthespy

volumio@volumio15:~$ sudo dpkg -l | grep libc
ii  klibc-utils                          2.0.4-2+rpi1                       armhf        small utilities built with klibc for early boot
ii  libc-bin                             2.24-11+deb9u4                     armhf        GNU C Library: Binaries
ii  libc-dev-bin                         2.24-11+deb9u4                     armhf        GNU C Library: Development binaries
ii  libc-l10n                            2.24-11+deb9u4                     all          GNU C Library: localization files
ii  libc6:armhf                          2.24-11+deb9u4                     armhf        GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libc6-dev:armhf                      2.24-11+deb9u4                     armhf        GNU C Library: Development Libraries and Header Files
ii  libcaca0:armhf                       0.99.beta19-2                      armhf        colour ASCII art library
ii  libcairo2:armhf                      1.14.0-2.1+deb8u2                  armhf        Cairo 2D vector graphics library
ii  libcap-ng0:armhf                     0.7.4-2                            armhf        An alternate POSIX capabilities library
ii  libcap2:armhf                        1:2.24-8                           armhf        POSIX 1003.1e capabilities (library)
ii  libcap2-bin                          1:2.24-8                           armhf        POSIX 1003.1e capabilities (utilities)
ii  libcdaudio1                          0.99.12p2-13                       armhf        library for controlling a CD-ROM when playing audio CDs
ii  libcdio-cdda1                        0.83-4.2                           armhf        library to read and control digital audio CDs
ii  libcdio-paranoia1                    0.83-4.2                           armhf        library to read digital audio CDs with error correction
ii  libcdio13                            0.83-4.2                           armhf        library to read and control CD-ROM
ii  libcdparanoia0:armhf                 3.10.2+debian-11                   armhf        audio extraction tool for sampling CDs (library)
ii  libcgmanager0:armhf                  0.33-2+deb8u2                      armhf        Central cgroup manager daemon (client library)
ii  libchromaprint1:armhf                1.4.2-1                            armhf        audio fingerprint library
ii  libcomerr2:armhf                     1.42.12-2                          armhf        common error description library
ii  libconfig-dev:armhf                  1.4.9-2                            armhf        parsing/manipulation of structured config files (development)
ii  libconfig9:armhf                     1.4.9-2                            armhf        parsing/manipulation of structured configuration files
ii  libconfuse-common                    2.7-5+deb8u1                       all          Common files for libConfuse
ii  libconfuse0:armhf                    2.7-5+deb8u1                       armhf        Library for parsing configuration files
ii  libcpufreq0                          008-1                              armhf        shared library to deal with the cpufreq Linux kernel feature
ii  libcryptsetup4:armhf                 2:1.6.6-5                          armhf        disk encryption support - shared library
ii  libcups2:armhf                       1.7.5-11+deb8u4                    armhf        Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - Core library
ii  libcurl3:armhf                       7.38.0-4+deb8u13                   armhf        easy-to-use client-side URL transfer library (OpenSSL flavour)
ii  libcurl3-gnutls:armhf                7.38.0-4+deb8u13                   armhf        easy-to-use client-side URL transfer library (GnuTLS flavour)
ii  libklibc                             2.0.4-2+rpi1                       armhf        minimal libc subset for use with initramfs
ii  liblocale-gettext-perl               1.05-8+b1                          armhf        module using libc functions for internationalization in Perl
ii  linux-libc-dev:armhf                 4.9.82-1+deb9u3+rpi1               armhf        Linux support headers for userspace development

Adrian.

That isn’t a Jessie version, but Stretch… @volumio Heads up - this is going to lead to a lot of headaches…

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let’s wait on Volumio’s feedback.

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Hi,
I have found the reason for this problem. Some dependencies are missing for build-essentials. The binutils can’t installed, without remove the libc6-dev library. A newer dependencies are allready installed. The new binutil and other dependencies are needed, but they are only in the stretch source

My workaround is:

add temporary the debian stretch source to install the dependecies

sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list

and add this line:

deb http://raspbian.raspberrypi.org/raspbian/ stretch main contrib non-free rpi

and update the package list:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install binutils
sudo apt-get install libstdc++-4.9-dev
sudo apt-get install gcc-4.9 gcc g++-4.9 g++ dpkg-dev

remove the line from source and update packagelist:

sudo apt-get update

Now you can install the build-essential successfully

here is a little script that do this all automatically

Workaround_BuildEssentials.zip (388 Bytes)

copy it to /home/volumio and make it executable with

chmod +x /home/volumio/Workaround_BuildEssentials.sh

I hope Volumio fix this with next version. :wink:
2aCD

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Serious? Adding Stretch to a Jessie based OS?

I have the procedure now tested with a fresh install and a build from source.
All librarys are needed from stretch source to run a build successfully.

I have no other possibility found to resolve this issue.

@gkkpch Unfortunately the base rootfs already has installed a bunch of libraries from the stretch repo in these new(er) Jessie images for tidal connect.
@mervinio should know more.

Hello all.
Is the workaround described above the only way to somehow fix that, or will there be a fix for Volumio?
I am asking because I need gcc, to (for code I, unfortunately, scripted on RaspOS and now is not running on my test environment with the latest Volumio image)

Thanks

.:. Lutz

Hi all,

Yesterday I got help from a neighbour to fix the same issue.
I have an Rpi with Twisted Pear Audio Hat and Cronus which I want to run.
My situation is slightly different since the below outputs are found:

gcc --version
g++ --version

We end up with the following:

root@volumio:/home/volumio/tpa-hermes-rpi-dev# git pull
Already up-to-date.
root@volumio:/home/volumio/tpa-hermes-rpi-dev# make clean
make -C /lib/modules/uname -r/build M=$PWD clean
make[1]: *** /lib/modules/4.19.118-v7+/build: No such file or directory. Stop.
Makefile:27: recipe for target ‘clean’ failed
make: *** [clean] Error 2
root@volumio:/home/volumio/tpa-hermes-rpi-dev#

Any suggestions? Thank you in advance.

Jordo

No one?.. :frowning:

Thank you for your Workaround! I’m very happy that you’ve found a solution for the issue!
The issue has broken my installation Routine for NR1-UI, am I allowed to use your “Fix-code” if I’ll credit you in my Github?
Thank you in advance!
Regards,
Christoph

@Maschine2501
no problem :wink:

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@volumio the “build-essential” installation ist still broken on Volumio 2.909 (Rpi 4/4Gb - fresh installation). Will you fix this Issue? Cause my code need Build-Essential…

volumio@volumio:~$ sudo apt-get install build-essential
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
build-essential : Depends: gcc (>= 4:4.9.1) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: g++ (>= 4:4.9.1) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: dpkg-dev (>= 1.17.11) but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

Regards,

Christoph

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Is there a solution for this issue. Have the same problem with latest volumio 2.909. I need a g++ but unable to install

apt-get install build-essential
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 build-essential : Depends: gcc (>= 4:4.9.1) but it is not going to be installed
                   Depends: g++ (>= 4:4.9.1) but it is not going to be installed
                   Depends: dpkg-dev (>= 1.17.11) but it is not going to be installed

Tried to fix local package dependecies

apt-get autoremove #(remove all dependent libraries)
apt-get -f install
apt-get update

But no luck. Tried (as descripted in this post) to add

deb http://raspbian.raspberrypi.org/raspbian/ stretch main contrib non-free rpi
to sources.list
Also with no luck, this breaks mpd and it won’t start anymore.

Any hints how to fix it and get the compiler running?
Is a possible solution to build volumio from scratch?

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Realistically I think you will need to wait for Volumio 3, which is currently undergoing beta testing.

Quite true. Having Stretch libraries in a Jessie distribution is going to cause all sorts of compilation problems, but I speculate this is necessary because of Tidal Connect (and Tidal is not going to compile TC for a distro that had reached EOL more than a year ago).

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Loaded up an 2.xx image after some time and ran into this personally.

It’s a tad annoying, as I don’t use Tidal, but even downgrading to a version that doesn’t use Tidal connect no longer works because of the certificate issues.

The issue with stretch libs is also seen from python and pip dependencies being broken.

What is the recommend way to solve this?

If a few libs are needed from Stretch, then there are much better ways than just get fetching everything from Stretch… But I agree, we can only speculate here and pin (hehe) things on the Tidal Connect plugin.

I did some looking up on the leaked/questionable versions of tidal connect floating around on github, and indeed you see that it needs some libs from Jessie and/or some from stretch(libflac++ libavformat57 libcurl3, etc). So the hypothesis indeed seems correct.