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Originally Posted by arashi256
I'm using Fedora Core 8 and this apparently ships with GCC 4.1. I want to upgrade to the latest 4.2 version, as some software I've got apparently requires it. So, three questions really...
1. How to find GCC 4.2 as a package that I can install easily?
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If Fedora has not created an RPM for GCC 4.2 then you are unlikely to find one. You would have to download the source for gcc 4.2 and compile it yourself. You would have to find out if any of gcc's dependencies change from 4.1 and 4.2 and compile any dependency which has changed. You would want to compile gcc 4.2 into a different directory than gcc 4.1 so that you can run either one.
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Originally Posted by arashi256
2. Is there a good tutorial on 'yum' or 'apt' or whatever it is? I gather its similar to RPM, but seems to look at online repositories from the command-line for software rather than downloading RPM files manually off the web. If possible, something that explains how to 'scan' for certain software versions that might be available.
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You have your terminology confused. RPM is a collection of ideas that includes a package format and some command line programs to manage packages built on the RPM format. yum is a higher level package manager built on top of RPM. yum will look at online repositories and select the combination of packages that you need, download them, and install them. Documentation includes the man pages:
man yum
man rpm
You can probably find a tutorial with Google.
There is a completely different package manager based on Debian. The packages are called deb packages. apt is a command line program used to manage deb packages. The GUI version of apt is called synaptic. Fedora does not use the deb system.
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Originally Posted by arashi256
3. Newbie's way out: Can I get GNOME to 'force' a scan for upgraded packages. At the moment, it just occasionally finds new updates to install somehow.
I get the feeling if I can get my head around the common package managers, Linux software will be much easier to obtain. I already know how to search/install/uninstall RPM files that I've downloaded from the web, but thats about it.
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GNOME is a desktop manager. It has nothing to do with rpm or deb. You can use anacron to periodically schedule an update scan, say once a week. Work on creating a script which has yum do the scan, download, and update to your satisfaction then tell anacron to schedule your yum script to run periodically.
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Steve Stites