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Re: How to uninstall pre-installed previous version and install new
- From: Syed Ahsan Ali Bokhari <ahsan dot pmd at gmail dot com>
- To: Jonathan Wakely <jwakely dot gcc at gmail dot com>
- Cc: gcc-help <gcc-help at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2014 14:22:23 +0500
- Subject: Re: How to uninstall pre-installed previous version and install new
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Thanks Jonathan for your suggestions.
On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 1:37 PM, Jonathan Wakely <jwakely.gcc@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 5 August 2014 04:45, Syed Ahsan Ali Bokhari wrote:
>> My RHEL6.1 has pre installed gcc (GCC) 4.4.5 20110214 (Red Hat
>> 4.4.5-6). I want to update it to latest version. I don't have red hat
>> subscription and therefore I'll have to install from source. How can I
>> uninstall this version
>
> "yum erase gcc" but I would advise against doing that.
>
>> and install a more recent version of GCC.
>
> It's a bad idea to replace the system compiler, just install a newer
> version in a different path.
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