>>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