Upgrade/Update GCC?

[Christer Solskogen]

On Thu, 13 Oct 2011 23:42:46 -0700, newbieneedshelp wrote:

> hello all, i'm running ubuntu 10.04 on my inspiron 1520 and i have gcc
> 4.4.3, the latest verison is 4.6.1.  i tried to update using synaptic
> manager but it says 4.4.3 is the latest version it can go.  this means
> the repository must be old. is there any way to update the gcc
> repository on my comp?   i went to the GCC site and to install gcc is a
> very long process, do i need to go through that process when all i need
> is just an update?

You can upgrade to Ubuntu 11.10.

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chs