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I have recently installed 8.04 Ubuntu onto an industrial board and applied the vendor kernel modifications to it. I need to develop applications on another desktop to run on this board in C++ but I am unable to install any software (specifically build-essential) on it so I am left with gcc 4.2.4 which is simply not an option as our application must be C++. I really do not know what to do here as this version is unsupported. I found this answer here Installing software on an old Ubuntu version that's no longer supported (2009 Jaunty) but unfortunately this does not help at all.

EDIT: The installation is made on a compact flash card attached to the board using USB CD-ROM drive. The vendor suggests that 9.04 and 10.04 are supported but using the ubuntu .iso installation images I have been unable to successfully install either of these successfully, hence I am stuck with 8.04.

Is there any way I can install what I want from a CD ?

Any help or suggestions would be very gratefully received as I am a software developer and not a system administrator and feeling a little out of my depth here.

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mathematician1975
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If it is a possibility, I suggest you download 10.04 ISO (I would actually recommend 12.04, but you claim hardware issues) and burn a CD, back up all the data and do a fresh install. It probably is the recommended way since 8.04 is long outdated.

If that is not a possibility, use this command

sudo sed -i 's/hardy/lucid/g' /etc/apt/sources.list
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

to upgrade to 10.04. I would assume that would work but I haven't really used 8.04. So, it might not be the one that you are looking for. Use it at your discretion.

The gcc version in 10.04 is 4.4.3. Might not be what you are looking for but better than being stuck in 8.04.

At any case, back up your data. There is more than a chance that things can go from bad to worse.

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