How to uninstall pre-installed previous version and install new

[Ángel González]

On 05/08/14 10:37, Jonathan Wakely 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.
Specially if you attempt to remove it before having the new one ready,
as you won't be able to install from source (thus compil¡ng) the new 
version
without a working compiler.