Re: Need help. Developers wants a older versions of gcc to be installed on redhat.

[Paul Dwerryhouse <paul dwerryhouse com au>]

On Sat, Oct 07, 2006 at 01:56:08PM +0530, unix syzadmin wrote:
> We have a RHEL AS4 U3 server. It has gcc-3.4.5-2 installed.
> Developers want a older versions of gcc to be installed  (*gcc-3.2.3-20)*.
> 
> How can I uninstall gcc-3.4.5-2 and all its dependants.

You're probably better off compiling up gcc 3.2.3 from source and
installing it somewhere manually (eg, /opt/gcc-323, or something).

Trying to install RPMs of a previous version is likely to cause you all
sorts of problems (and possibly breakages) getting the dependencies right.

Cheers,

Paul


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