On 9/11/19 9:05 AM, John Chludzinski wrote: > > How do I go about updating gcc to version 6 or greater on my CentOS 7 > machine? And do so safely? The easiest way is going to be to use software collections: https://www.softwarecollections.org/en/scls/rhscl/devtoolset-7/ devtoolset 7 will install gcc 7 in a directory in /opt, which will not conflict or interfere with existing system packages. When you want to use gcc 7, you'd start a new shell with a modified path and other environment variables using: scl enable devtoolset-7 bash