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Hi, I have mandrake 9.0 and I used that install utility that is a part of the control center to install GCC 3.2 and the packages it requires and it seems like everything went okay, it said "installation successful" and I can find parts of GCC of my HD but I'm having problems. First, I can't find GCC in my list of applications on the Linux equavalent to the windows start menu. Second, I have found parts of GCC on my hard drive, but I have no idea how to get it to run. How do I get it on my appliactions menu and how do I get it to load up? I'm sure this is a super newbie question but hey, that's what I am. Any help is much appreciated, thank you for your time.
-calimer
Well GCC is a compiler, it has no graphical front-ends except IDE (intergrated devolpment environment applications - separate applications that use gcc to compile your own code), to check that gcc is working is to compile a simple C, C++, etc code. As for verifying the version of gcc installed run in console
gcc -v
I was wondering, can you suggest any good IDE programs where I could use GCC? See I would test C or C++ code in there, but I don't even know where I would begin to enter it in or anything. When I had redhat 7.3, I could just load up GCC and type in code and it worked fine, but I have no idea what the "IDE" was or anything. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you so much for your time.
-calimer
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