I am used to working on Ubuntu and am trying to get something going on a machine that is running Redhat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.4.

I want to do something that seems like it should be pretty simple - I just want to install gcc.

I started going to rpm route. Please forgive me - I am totally new to rpms. First I tried downloading an rpm file. I searched on this site:

http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/se...&system=&arch=

And I wasn't sure which one to pick.

http://unclean.org/howto/gcchowto.html

When I tried installing it I got a message that there are a bunch of dependencies I don't have. I feel like I am making this way harder than it needs to be. Is there an easy way to install gcc?

Thanks!
Kristen

RHEL5 (and Fedora and CentOS 5) use rpm and yum. RPM = RedHat Package Manager. YUM = Yellowdog Update Manager.

Yum will install rpm packages AND resolve dependencies.

You should have registered your system on RedHat Network (RHN) at the end of the install. If you did then simply running "yum install gcc" would download and install gcc and the dependencies.

Prior to running that you should run "rpm -q gcc" to verify it isn't already installed. Your issue may be that you have gcc but its not in your PATH. Type "rpm -ql gcc" will show you where all the files the rpm installed are.

Welcome to LQ.

Getting the c compiler on Redhat EL 5 :
Please do these commands in the terminal :
1) su <enter-password>
2) yum install gcc

For the c++ compiler ( g++ ) :
3) yum install gcc-c++
.....

By gosh golly it worked! Thank you for enlightening me - life was sucking without YUM! I was starting to think that anyone who used RedHat was crazy. Much better now!

-Kristen