Topic: gcc on SME 7

[asante]

Hi,
Is there a reason why gcc was remove from SME,and how do i install it,because i need it to compile some educational programms like manhattan and greenstone digital library.these programs needs C compiler on the machine.thanks

[Boris]

The designers reason not to include GCC (and other development tools/headers) from the production servers is mainly security. The target users of this all-inclusive distro are regular home and small business users without Linux experience. For more advanced users/developers, development tools package (GCC, kernel headers, some libraries and tools) generally available as an addon devtools per version of SME, or you could use the ones that included in the "mother-distro". For SME 7.0 b4 that is CentOS 4.1

[duncan]

yum install gcc

[CharlieBrady]

The designers reason not to include GCC (and other development tools/headers) from the production servers is mainly security.

No, it's completely security.

[asante]

Thanks for the quick responds.i will consider installing centOS for the job.