GCC Binary CD Question

[Matthew Woehlke]

Porter, Doug wrote:
> I'm a Systems Analyst & network administrator in a Windows 
> environment and have almost no experience with Linux beyond the basic
> Linux installation process.� I'm trying to help a few circuit design
> engineers in my company set up circuit simulation software on Intel
> 64-bit Redhat Linux ES version 5 , and this software requires a C
> compiler to work efficiently.� Neither I nor the design engineers
> have experience with Linux.� My apologies for my ignorance in these
> matters, but is there a CD for the binary version of a GCC C compiler
> that I could buy for this hardware & operating system?� Figuring out
> how to install a C compiler is likely going to take more time than I
> can reasonably afford, but I'm trying to help out some very
> frustrated users on a project I have no direct responsibility for and
> am reluctant to leave them to flounder on their own.
> Any advice or assistance you could provide would be both helpful and appreciated.

First off, you should contact your distro's support channel rather than 
here. I see you mentioned RedHat 5; if that is the distribution you have 
installed on the machine that is currently missing gcc, then "yum 
install gcc" should be able to fix that for you, if you have RHN set up. 
Otherwise you should grab your original install media and look for the 
gcc package. It is probably in <cd root>/RedHat/RPMS, and is likely 
named "gcc-4.1.1-52.el5-x86_64.rpm" or something similar. Note that you 
will need to be root to do this.

Even easier, if you can find the graphical package manager (it should be 
in the GUI menu somewhere, but as I never use it, I forget what it's 
called), you can look for 'Development Tools' and install gcc that way. 
You should NOT log in to the Desktop Environment as root; I believe the 
package manager can be run as any user and will prompt you for the root 
password at an appropriate point.

-- 
Matthew
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