i cant believe i have a production box online without gcc installed using a new CentOS 4 server CD???
confused to say the least as i always install all the compiler and etc components...
will the command
yum install gcc
get me everything i need or should i specify something else to get everything in one swoop that i might ever need
thanks
- rh
-- Robert Hanson - Abba Communications Computer & Internet Services (509) 624-7159 - www.abbacomm.net
Robert Hanson said: i cant believe i have a production box online without gcc installed using a new CentOS 4 server CD???
confused to say the least as i always install all the compiler and etc components...
None of the CentOS Server CD images include GCC with the default install AFAIK, so that shouldn't be surprising. There are a lot of production boxes out there without GCC installed. You can, however, mark GCC for installation during the text/GUI package selection process. It's in the Development Tools section.
will the command
yum install gcc
get me everything i need or should i specify something else to get everything in one swoop that i might ever need
This is extremely vague. What are your needs? 'yum install gcc' will get you gcc and all of its dependencies, yes.
-Alex
} } This is extremely vague. What are your needs? 'yum install gcc' will get } you } gcc and all of its dependencies, yes. } } -Alex }
hehe i wasnt vague, you just cant read my mind. i said "everything i might ever need" from the CD
well i was hoping to get ALL the devel stuff that would be installed should i have checked it on install from the CD in "one shot"
when i tried to compile qmail i noticed i didnt have gcc
then after a
yum install gcc
and a compile start i find out i dont have
openssl-devel
so, im sure you can figure out that as i work i dont want to have to figure out every little package to install one at a time so...
is there a single command to get *ALL* the DEVEL stuff meaning compilers and libs and whatever on the box in "one fell swoop"
i have more hard drive space than time ;->
and FYI, if it (it meaning all DEVEL stuff) could be specified to be installed on the Server CD when i installed, then it was specified.
i do every install the same meaning i install everything but GUI
otherwise i have possibly found an issue or bug??
thanks, i do appreciate the reply Alex. :-)
- rh
-- Robert Hanson - Abba Communications Computer & Internet Services (509) 624-7159 - www.abbacomm.net
On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 12:42:39AM -0800, Robert Hanson enlightened us:
is there a single command to get *ALL* the DEVEL stuff meaning compilers and libs and whatever on the box in "one fell swoop"
As was previously mentioned, gcc is part of the Development Tools group. As such:
yum groupinstall "Development Tools"
should take care of your one fell swoop requirement :-)
Matt
} } As was previously mentioned, gcc is part of the Development Tools group. } As such: } } yum groupinstall "Development Tools" } } should take care of your one fell swoop requirement :-) } } Matt
i am grateful!, thank you to all who replied i.e. Matt, Karanbir, Jim and Johnny
man, you know, man, man pages always used to be for "switch specifics" as far as i was concerned...
now it seems that with the advent of newer tools that they man pages might also point in _broader_ command switch specific directions.
thank you for pointing that out. i wasnt totally aware of "groupinstall" let alone "grouplist"
sheesh...
thing is, that which can get you info in a hurry, can also destroy a production box in a hurry...
CentOS test machines and the CentOS list "are your friends" ;->
sorry, couldnt resist :-)
- rh
-- Robert Hanson - Abba Communications Computer & Internet Services (509) 624-7159 - www.abbacomm.net
On Thu, 2006-01-12 at 08:51 -0800, Robert Hanson wrote:
} } As was previously mentioned, gcc is part of the Development Tools group. } As such: } } yum groupinstall "Development Tools" } } should take care of your one fell swoop requirement :-) } } Matt
i am grateful!, thank you to all who replied i.e. Matt, Karanbir, Jim and Johnny
man, you know, man, man pages always used to be for "switch specifics" as far as i was concerned...
now it seems that with the advent of newer tools that they man pages might also point in _broader_ command switch specific directions.
thank you for pointing that out. i wasnt totally aware of "groupinstall" let alone "grouplist"
sheesh...
thing is, that which can get you info in a hurry, can also destroy a production box in a hurry...
CentOS test machines and the CentOS list "are your friends" ;->
sorry, couldnt resist :-)
There is also a very good yum document here: http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4/docs/html/yum/
is there a single command to get *ALL* the DEVEL stuff meaning compilers and libs and whatever on the box in "one fell swoop"
yum groupinstall 'Development Tools' will give you everything in this group. It's possible that you may still have to install the odd -devel package depending on what you build, but it'll get you 99% of the way there.
It's amazing what 30 seconds with the yum documentation will give you.....
-- Jim Perrin System Architect - UIT Ft Gordon & US Army Signal Center
On Thu, 2006-01-12 at 00:42 -0800, Robert Hanson wrote:
} } This is extremely vague. What are your needs? 'yum install gcc' will get } you } gcc and all of its dependencies, yes. } } -Alex }
hehe i wasnt vague, you just cant read my mind. i said "everything i might ever need" from the CD
Well .. that is not what the Single Server CD is for. The Single Server CD is only ~650MB ... the full CentOS install is 2.2GB.
The Single server CD obviously is NOT the entire CentOS tree on a single CD ... it is a subset of programs that we could get on one CD and have it be a useful server. It can only hold about 25% of the packages that we release for CentOS ... so 75% of what is ultimately available in CentOS is not on the Single CD. Which is why we release CentOS on 4 CDs or a DVD.
well i was hoping to get ALL the devel stuff that would be installed should i have checked it on install from the CD in "one shot"
obviously only so much stuff is going to fit in one sock :)
A full CentOS set (4 CD's or 1 DVD) is required to install all packages directly from the CD / DVD.
Robert Hanson wrote:
i cant believe i have a production box online without gcc installed using a new CentOS 4 server CD???
confused to say the least as i always install all the compiler and etc components...
Development tools like gcc, on a server end platform ( specially something that is in production, internet facing, with public content - which a lot of CentOS machines tend to be ) - is usually considered a bad idea.
The system installed from the ServerCD shares its package tree with the main CentOS distro, so you should be able to use yum against the same repositories.
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