Hey i am new to suse and need a little help installing gcc and g++ ( c and cpp compiler)

I downloaded gcc-4.0.1.tar.bz2

now some1 can please guide me thru the process

i found the gcc.gnu.org to confusing ..
1. Prerequisites
2. Downloading the source
3. Configuration
4. Building
5. Testing (optional)
6. Final install

Hey ! are you trying to upgrade or do a fresh install ? Check if you have gcc already present. Open up a terminal and type :
The file gcc-4.0.1.tar.bz2 is a source file, inorder to install from it you need to build it and for that you need to have a compiler already installed. If you do not have it already installed you would have to find binaries of the particular package (for your distro)

In general for installing any source package follow this :

1) Extract the package a) Using gui or,
b) tar -xzvf <package_name.tar.gz>
c) tar -xjvf <package name.tar.bz2>

2) cd into the newly extracted directory.
3) type ./configure (press enter here)
4) type make (press enter)
5) as root type make install (press enter)

You could aslo type ./configure --help to see all the configure options you have.

Hope this helps.

I am doing a fresh install not a upgrade


koodoo@knapsacker:~$ gcc --version
when i give this it give "bash command gcc not found"



3) type ./configure
It says building in source directory is not supported in this release


i didnt get the part about finding the binaries....i am using suse 9.1 ..please provide me links

hi there,
once you downloaded the tar file, you have to untar and unzip it using the command "tar -zxvf package name".after that cd into the new directory and read the INSTALL files. options may change,, thats y......

Hey Enigmatic, you need to install rpm packages of gcc for SUSE 9.1

Here take a look at the following two threads, they deal with the exact problem you are facing :

HowTo: Install a C compiler and make, for SuSE 9.1 Personal

and

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...5&pagenumber=2

I think these would be enough to solve your problem.

Here are some places from where you can download gcc rpm's for SUSE 9.1

Package List "gcc-c++" (94 rpms)

ftp://mirror.mcs.anl.gov/pub/suse/i386/9.1/suse/i586/

While installing these rpm's you might have some dependency problems, for which you would have to download and install the required packages also. You could also use tools like yum which do this automatically for you.

You may also like to google this : download gcc rpm for SUSE 9.1
( Actually use http://www.google.com/linux )

Try this out and tell us what happened.

Hope this helps

BTW he doesn't have gcc installed, so I do not think source files would be any good to him.

thanks koodoo....i really appreciate it man!

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