'yum upgrade' did the trick. 554 MB and 318 packages later and I have gcc 4.1.2. Thanks, Patrick On 7/23/09 12:08 PM, "Lorenzo Quatrini" <lorenzo.quatrini at gmail.com> wrote: > Patrick May ha scritto: >> I have a CentOS 5.2 installation with gcc 3.4.6 as the default. I'd >> like to upgrade the entire gcc tool chain, including libraries, to 4.x in >> order to build some software that requires 4.1.0 or better. Can I do this >> easily through yum? If I upgrade to 5.3 will I get gcc 4.x by default? >> >> Thanks, >> >> Patrick >> > Yes, I guess: on my pc I get > > rpm -q centos-release > centos-release-5-3.el5.centos.1.i386 > > rpm -q gcc > gcc-4.1.2-44.el5.i386