How to uninstall pre-installed previous version and install new

[Jonathan Wakely]

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.