[CentOS] Need to update gcc to version >=6 on CentOS 7 ?

John Chludzinski

john.chludzinski at gmail.com
Wed Sep 11 16:53:24 UTC 2019


Ooops! for to:

$ sudo yum install centos-release-scl-rh

On Wed, Sep 11, 2019 at 12:50 PM John Chludzinski
<john.chludzinski at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> $ sudo yum install devtoolset-7
>
> Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, langpacks
> Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
>  * base: mirror.vcu.edu
>  * epel: mirror.siena.edu
>  * extras: mirror.vcu.edu
>  * updates: mirror.vcu.edu
> No package devtoolset-7 available.
> Error: Nothing to do
>
> On Wed, Sep 11, 2019 at 12:17 PM Gordon Messmer
> <gordon.messmer at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > 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
> >
> >
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