i cant believe i have a production box online without gcc installed using a new CentOS 4 server CD??? confused to say the least as i always install all the compiler and etc components... will the command yum install gcc get me everything i need or should i specify something else to get everything in one swoop that i might ever need thanks - rh -- Robert Hanson - Abba Communications Computer & Internet Services (509) 624-7159 - www.abbacomm.net
>>Robert Hanson said: >>i cant believe i have a production box online without gcc installed using >>a >>new CentOS 4 server CD??? >> >>confused to say the least as i always install all the compiler and etc >>components...None of the CentOS Server CD images include GCC with the default install AFAIK, so that shouldn't be surprising. There are a lot of production boxes out there without GCC installed. You can, however, mark GCC for installation during the text/GUI package selection process. It's in the Development Tools section.>>will the command >> >>yum install gcc >> >>get me everything i need or should i specify something else to get >>everything in one swoop that i might ever needThis is extremely vague. What are your needs? 'yum install gcc' will get you gcc and all of its dependencies, yes. -Alex
Robert Hanson wrote:> i cant believe i have a production box online without gcc installed using a > new CentOS 4 server CD??? > > confused to say the least as i always install all the compiler and etc > components...Development tools like gcc, on a server end platform ( specially something that is in production, internet facing, with public content - which a lot of CentOS machines tend to be ) - is usually considered a bad idea. The system installed from the ServerCD shares its package tree with the main CentOS distro, so you should be able to use yum against the same repositories. -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522219 at icq