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    A bit of a laugh...

    Ok, I did the initial breaking myself by installing an updated version of G++ (because the 4.1.2 in Kubuntu is broken). After installing the packages, apt/adept decided to uninstall _everything_.

    I tried to install the kubuntu-desktop meta package when it was done, but I got this error:

    The program 'apt-get' is currently not installed. You can install it by typing:
    sudo apt-get install apt

    Wow...thats just like the automated phone message on my old ISP saying that if I had a problem connecting to the internet, I should visit their tech support website....

    I reinstalled Kubuntu, still looking for a solution to the g++ 4.1.2 issue, but I figured I would share this funny message...
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    Re: A bit of a laugh...

    It would be funny if it was not tragic. The bad-old "cyclic dependency".
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      Re: A bit of a laugh...

      Yeah, that was in someone's sig here once. Dunno whose, or if it's still there.
      Or maybe it was on Slashdot.

      In any case, what's wrong with g++? I have the latest version installed, and I can compile everything I have the source for (all three programs) just fine.
      For external use only.
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        Re: A bit of a laugh...

        Compile an app with the flag -fvisibility-inlines-hidden that uses libstdc++, and you will feel different.

        I reported this bug ages ago but couldn't give a why, so they closed the bug saying it didnt exist (bull!)

        But now there is a newer bug report that states the exact same thing, but actually has the reason, and they are right, if I remove that flag from my test cases, it compiles perfectly, add that flag back in and it doesn't. Its a problem specific to the Ubuntu modification of gcc and friends.

        This was supposedly fixed in 4.2, but apt only has the 4.1.2, so I found some official debs online for a higher version, but they had all sorts of dependency issues, so after the first package, I gave up.

        Later I tried to install gftp from Adept, and it uninstalled everything (because they depended on a different version, even though the one installed was perfectly capable)
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