Installing gcc (build-essential) vs. bug #1074111?

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After using the setup wizard (great experience), I tried to install gcc with:

$ apt update
$ apt install build-essential

This resulted in an error message related to a bug in binutils, presumably #1074111 - [arm64] boot stops at 'Starting kernel ...' without any further output when kernel built with recent binutils - Debian Bug report logs

Is there a simple way to install a previous version of gcc (and binutils)?

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Hi,

Iā€™m the author of that bug. You probably mean to install the package build-essential. You can retrieve past versions of packages from snapshot.d.o but in case of binutils, you will require quite a few additional packages for this to work out due to versioned dependencies. The result is not for the faint of heart:

wget http://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/20240321T160517Z/pool/main/b/binutils/binutils_2.42-4_arm64.deb
wget http://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/20240321T160517Z/pool/main/b/binutils/libbinutils_2.42-4_arm64.deb
wget http://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/20240321T160517Z/pool/main/b/binutils/binutils-aarch64-linux-gnu_2.42-4_arm64.deb
wget http://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/20240321T160517Z/pool/main/b/binutils/binutils-arm-linux-gnueabihf_2.42-4_arm64.deb
wget http://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/20240321T160517Z/pool/main/b/binutils/binutils-common_2.42-4_arm64.deb
wget http://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/20240321T160517Z/pool/main/b/binutils/libctf0_2.42-4_arm64.deb
wget http://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/20240321T160517Z/pool/main/b/binutils/libgprofng0_2.42-4_arm64.deb
wget http://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/20240515T144351Z/pool/main/g/gcc-13/gcc-13-aarch64-linux-gnu_13.2.0-25_arm64.deb
wget http://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/20240515T144351Z/pool/main/g/gcc-13/gcc-13_13.2.0-25_arm64.deb
wget http://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/20240515T144351Z/pool/main/g/gcc-13/g%2B%2B-13_13.2.0-25_arm64.deb
wget http://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/20240515T144351Z/pool/main/g/gcc-13/libstdc%2B%2B-13-dev_13.2.0-25_arm64.deb
wget http://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/20240515T144351Z/pool/main/g/gcc-13/cpp-13_13.2.0-25_arm64.deb
wget http://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/20240515T144351Z/pool/main/g/gcc-13/cpp-13-aarch64-linux-gnu_13.2.0-25_arm64.deb
wget http://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/20240515T144351Z/pool/main/g/gcc-13/g%2B%2B-13-aarch64-linux-gnu_13.2.0-25_arm64.deb
wget http://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/20240515T144351Z/pool/main/g/gcc-13/gcc-13-base_13.2.0-25_arm64.deb
wget http://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/20240515T144351Z/pool/main/g/gcc-13/libgcc-13-dev_13.2.0-25_arm64.deb
apt-get install ./binutils-arm-linux-gnueabihf_2.42-4_arm64.deb ./binutils-common_2.42-4_arm64.deb ./binutils_2.42-4_arm64.deb ./libbinutils_2.42-4_arm64.deb ./binutils-aarch64-linux-gnu_2.42-4_arm64.deb ./libctf0_2.42-4_arm64.deb ./libgprofng0_2.42-4_arm64.deb ./gcc-13-aarch64-linux-gnu_13.2.0-25_arm64.deb ./gcc-13_13.2.0-25_arm64.deb ./g++-13_13.2.0-25_arm64.deb ./libstdc++-13-dev_13.2.0-25_arm64.deb ./cpp-13_13.2.0-25_arm64.deb ./cpp-13-aarch64-linux-gnu_13.2.0-25_arm64.deb ./g++-13-aarch64-linux-gnu_13.2.0-25_arm64.deb ./gcc-13-base_13.2.0-25_arm64.deb ./libgcc-13-dev_13.2.0-25_arm64.deb

It might be easier to work inside a chroot until that binutils bug is fixed.

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Hi josch,

You probably mean to install the package build-essential

Yes, typos are now fixed.

retrieve past versions of packages

Great, will give it a try.

work inside a chroot

Thanks a lot!

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Tried the above commands, which broke Wi-Fi. See WiFi gone after reboot - #3 by minute for an explanation and fix.

For future reference, to install gcc, this now works:

$ sudo apt update
$ sudo apt upgrade
$ sudo apt install build-essential