Centos install newer package of gcc via yum

09 Apr 2019

Centos is popular for it is stability and security. It meets all kinds of purpose for commercial requirements. However, to maintain security and stability, most of its package are outdated. It is harder to run newer version compiled program with lower version of gcc.

We can solve this easily by compiler new version of gcc. It is not that hard, but requires some time to do the job. We can fix it in a easy way. Thanks to Software Colletions, it is provide in RHSCL(Red Hat Software Collections) in devtoolset-7. We just simply need to enable it and download it from the repository. It can be done in following steps. You can find more information here

1. Install the centos-release-scl in centos repository

   sudo yum install centos-release-scl
   

2. Enable RHSCL repository

   sudo yum-config-manager --enable rhel-server-rhscl-7-rpms
   

3. Install the collections

   sudo yum install devtoolset-7
   

4. Enable the package

   scl enable devtoolset-7 bash
   

You can find more other package from the website. I can also download node from here. So we do not need to spend time compile the software.