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Title: gcc on SME 7
Post by: asante on September 26, 2005, 04:46:06 PM

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

Title: gcc on SME 7
Post by: Boris on September 26, 2005, 10:13:56 PM

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

Title: gcc on SME 7
Post by: duncan on September 27, 2005, 12:59:06 AM

yum install gcc

Title: gcc on SME 7
Post by: CharlieBrady on September 27, 2005, 03:26:35 AM

Quote from: "Boris"

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

No, it's completely security. :-)

Title: gcc on SME 7
Post by: asante on September 27, 2005, 11:42:32 AM

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