Question about gcc

[g2eenday]

Hello every body
please please help
1) how can understand that gcc is installed or not[ without type gcc ]?
2) how can i install gcc? [command] [no yum way]

[GNU-Fan]

1) how can understand that gcc is installed or not[ without type gcc ]?

GNU Autoconf - Creating Automatic Configuration Scripts - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation (FSF)

2) how can i install gcc? [command] [no yum way]

This depends on the distribution in use. That's the reason why you should give that info whenever you ask a technical question.

[reed9]

Well, since yum was mentioned, I'm guessing Fedora or Redhat/Redhat clone. In which case, I believe the following will give you all the basic tools needed to compile, such as gcc.

yum groupinstall 'Development Tools'

[g2eenday]

i downloaded gcc-4.4.1.tar.gz for install compiler, but want install gcc with it!
i typed:
# tar -xzf gcc-4.4.1.tar.gz
# cd gcc-4.4.1
# ./configure

and got this error:
no acceptable c compiler found in path

i want install gcc!!! but why got this error?!

[reed9]

You need gcc installed to compile gcc. One of the enduring mysteries of the universe.

Here are instructions for building gcc.
Installing GCC - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation (FSF)

But there is really no good reason to do so for the vast majority of users.

[hugortega]

Also, if you don't want to use yum because you don't have an available network, you can always download on other machine the precompiled packages (rpm, deb, etc) and transfer to your box ... I'ts extremely strange that you need to compile the compiler

[g2eenday]

Thanks from all

[Tom Varghese]

Since it is most mysterious as archlinux said, most of distro DVD contains gcc. itself. If you installed a minimal version, try to find out a bigger DVD version and browse it for installation.