I have tried the following on a fresh install;
sudo apt-get install build-essential linux-headers-$(uname -r):
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amnesia@amnesia:~$ sudo apt-get install build-essential linux-headers-$(uname -r)
[sudo] password for amnesia:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
linux-headers-3.16.0-4-amd64 : Depends: linux-compiler-gcc-4.8-x86 but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
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amnesia@amnesia:~$ sudo apt-get install linux-compiler-gcc-4.8-x86
[sudo] password for amnesia:
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:
linux-compiler-gcc-4.8-x86 : Depends: gcc-4.8 but it is not installable
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
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amnesia@amnesia:~$ sudo apt-get install gcc-4.8
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Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package gcc-4.8 is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
E: Package 'gcc-4.8' has no installation candidate
I have also tried changing /etc/apt/sources.list to jessie and then doing apt-get update & apt-get dist-upgrade - however still no prevail
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# /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://ftp.au.debian.org/debian/ jessie main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.au.debian.org/debian/ jessie main contrib non-free
deb http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates main contrib non-free
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates main contrib non-free
deb http://httpredir.debian.org/debian jessie main
deb-src http://httpredir.debian.org/debian jessie main
deb http://httpredir.debian.org/debian jessie-updates main
deb-src http://httpredir.debian.org/debian jessie-updates main
deb http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates main
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates main