gcc -2.95 installation in Suse 9.1 Personal help needed.
 

hi

I am a Linux newbie.I have fallen in love with Suse 9.1 Personal Edition.
I tried installing various software,and i suceeded with Mozilla Browser and Limewire and Azureus Torrent client. But most of the packages require me to compile them ,and hence require gcc compiler (?). So i downloaded gcc -2.95.
to repeat ,I use SuSe 9.1 Personal on a Pentium 3 733 Mhz.
Now I cant seem to find a way out with gcc.
When i tried installing it, it gave me some error saying that the environmental variable $PATH should point to a compiler like cc.
How do I do it?
OR
How do I install gcc flawlessly?
Thanks and Regards.
Rishi.

You'll need to install a precompiled version of gcc. You should be able to install an rpm. I would try to install gcc-3.3 if I were you http://www.rpmfind.net//linux/RPM/su...3-41.i586.html
As root use the command
rpm -i /path/to/gcc-numbers.rpm

don't forget to install the rest of the development environment if you compiling applications and such:

autoconf
automake
m4
make
gawk
sed
perl
binutils
etc....