how to install GCC onto Red Hat Enterprise system?

[newbie2011]

Does anyone know where to get gcc and how to install it to a Red Hat Enterprise system? Thanks.

[Irithori]

yum install gcc

[newbie2011]

yum install gcc

Thanks for your response.

Does this "yum" command retrieve the GCC compiler from the Net, then, installs it to my Red Hat server, or is the compiler already on my server and just needs to be extracted out?

[jayd512]

Yum is the package manager.
This program reaches out to the software repositories and retrieves gcc and all of the dependencies.
It is then installed to your system.

[newbie2011]

I am told that yum will not work on my Enterprise 4 Red Hat.

yum works on Enterprise 5 or newer.

Please advise. Thanks.

[jayd512]

RHEL 4 is getting pretty old, now.
Is there any reason not to upgrade your system to a newer version?

Anyways... have you installed yum to your system?
If not, here is a page detailing how to go about it.

[Irithori]

I believe, the command before yum was up2date
so this might be worth a try:
up2date gcc

May I ask, what you are actually trying to achieve by installing gcc?


Other than that, rh4 is quite old, any chance of upgrading?

[Rubberman]

The gcc compiler should have been installed by default, but if not, you can use the "rpm" command to install it, assuming you have a valid support license from Red Hat. If not, then you will either need to download the rpm files for gcc (and dependencies), or switch over to an RHEL 4 clone, such as CentOS or Scientific Linux that does not require paid-for support contracts.