Re: [Ubuntu 14.04 x86_64] Unable to install gcc make 3.82

[Paul Smith]

On Mon, 2015-11-02 at 02:14 -0500, Rahul Muthoo wrote:
> Please find attached the make -v output in text file.
> 
> I had just installed Ubuntu 14 and this is the make version that i
> got.

Your attachment was in RTF format.  You should use plain text files and
attachments and use a text editor, not a word processor, to do your work
with programming: do not cut and paste text into MS Word or other word
processors: this is why your emails are getting formatted incorrectly.

Your attachment said:

> GNU Make version 3.75, by Richard Stallman and Roland McGrath.

It's simply not true that this is the version of GNU make provided with
Ubuntu 14.04.  In fact, I'd venture to say that there's never been a
single version of Ubuntu ever shipped that used this version of GNU
make: 3.75 was released almost 20 years ago, in 1996; by the time the
first Ubuntu release was shipped, Ubuntu 4.10 in 2004, the common
version of GNU make was 3.80.

If you have GNU make 3.75 installed on your system it must be part of
some other toolkit you installed that comes with its own (very old)
version of GNU make, and not part of the Ubuntu distribution.