I am new to linux and I'm needing to install/upgrade the g++. I am running RedHat 9.0. From the command prompt I run the following command and this is all that shows up.

[root@ivr source]# rpm -qa | grep gcc
libgcc-3.2.2-5

What other rpm's am I missing? any help would be great!
Thanks

[root@localhost /]# rpm -qa | grep -i gcc
compat-gcc-7.3-2.96.118
gcc-g77-3.2.2-5
gcc-java-3.2.2-5
libgcc-3.2.2-5
compat-gcc-c++-7.3-2.96.118
gcc-3.2.2-5
gcc-c++-3.2.2-5
gcc-gnat-3.2.2-5
[root@localhost /]# cat /etc/redhat-release
Red Hat Linux release 9 (Shrike)

Are these the rpms I need to install?

Don't think you need to install of these ... but I would suspect you might need ...

gcc-c++-3.2.2-5

... if you want g++ .

bash-2.05b$ rpm -q --filesbypkg gcc-c++-3.2.2-5
gcc-c++ /usr/bin/c++
gcc-c++ /usr/bin/c++filt
gcc-c++ /usr/bin/g++
gcc-c++ /usr/bin/i386-redhat-linux-c++
gcc-c++ /usr/bin/i386-redhat-linux-g++
gcc-c++ /usr/lib/gcc-lib
gcc-c++ /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux
gcc-c++ /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/3.2.2
gcc-c++ /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/3.2.2/cc1plus
gcc-c++ /usr/share/doc/gcc-c++-3.2.2
gcc-c++ /usr/share/doc/gcc-c++-3.2.2/ChangeLog
gcc-c++ /usr/share/doc/gcc-c++-3.2.2/ChangeLog.1
gcc-c++ /usr/share/doc/gcc-c++-3.2.2/ChangeLog.2
gcc-c++ /usr/share/doc/gcc-c++-3.2.2/ChangeLog.egcs
gcc-c++ /usr/share/man/man1/g++.1.gz

If I run this command:

[root@jonesivr source]# rpm -ivh gcc-3.2.2-5.i386.rpm
Preparing... ########################################### [100%]
1:gcc ########################################### [100%]


Then I check to see if it installed I get this message:

[root@jonesivr source]# rpm -q gcc-3.2.2-5.i386.rpm
package gcc-3.2.2-5.i386.rpm is not installed


Is the package then installed? If I try to run the package again it will
tell me that its already installed.

You should check to see if the package is installed like so ...

[root@jonesivr source]# rpm -q gcc-3.2.2-5
gcc-3.2.2-5

You had the i386.rpm from the RPM file in there
Reading the man page for rpm couldn't hurt.

I ran that and it show exactly like the above shows. Does it matter what directory I run the make command from in order to install the software I need? I have the directory with the new software in the /tmp directory. Could this be the problem? The following is the error I get:

[root@jonesivr ctserver-2.2]# make
cd src; make;
make[1]: Entering directory `/tmp/Voicetronix/ctserver-2.2/src'
g++ -g -D_DEBUG -DLINUX -W -Wall -DCOMPILED_ON=\"`date +"%H:%M:%S-%d/%m/%y\0"`\
" server.cpp -o server.o -c
/bin/sh: line 1: g++: command not found
make[1]: *** [server.o] Error 127
make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/Voicetronix/ctserver-2.2/src'
make: *** [ctserver] Error 2

Hi,
you most likely have gcc installed, check if there's a file /usr/bin/gcc which is actually
a symbolic link to gcc-3.*
Some scripts use the g++ command, actually gcc is meant, so all you need to do is
creating a symbolic link: /usr/bin# ln -s gcc-3.4 g++

dirk