how to Update gcc of OpenSuse 11.2?

c++ c linux gcc opensuse

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You might find the OpenSUSE Build Service useful; there are packages in the devel:gcc project.

I believe if you add the URL http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/gcc/openSUSE_11.2/ to your YaST configuration, you ought to be able to install those packages. (Though the status on the website looks broken, I wonder how long that'll be..)

All that said, I'd like to suggest that you not do your upgrade; SuSE goes to some effort to rebuild the entire distribution with the specific compiler and not break ABI compatibility with updates. Changing versions wholesale might break ABI compatibility with tools you compile, and either require rebuilding system-installed libraries, or backing out the changes.

If you can just upgrade the distribution to one that supports the gcc 4.5 branch, that'd be a safer option. (No, I've never personally seen ABI breakage when upgrading the compiler. But that doesn't mean it won't happen to you. :)

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Owen

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Updated on September 18, 2022

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Owen over 1 year
I have OpenSuse 11.2 with gcc version 4.4.1. I would like to update my gcc version to 4.5.1. I have downloaded gcc-4.5-19.1.i586.rpm. When I rpm install it, it's asking for gcc45-4.5.1_20101208-9.8.i586.rpm which is a dependency so I downloaded it. Now when I rpm install gcc45, it's asking for a lot of dependencies.

I remember downloading gcc 4.3 and it's dependencies for Opensuse 11.2 through yaST :
```
YaST --install  automake autoconf libtool gcc gcc43 gcc43-c++\
gcc-c++ libcom_err-devel alsa-devel docbook5-xsl-stylesheets\
texlive texlive-bin libxml2-devel zlib-devel gettext-tools\
readline-devel ncurses-devel libstdc++43-devel\
glibc-devel linux-kernel-headers gperf indent doxygen\
xorg-x11-fonts-devel xorg-x11-libX11-devel xorg-x11-libXau-devel\
xorg-x11-libxcb-devel xorg-x11-libXdmcp-devel xorg-x11-proto-devel\
xorg-x11-xtrans-devel xorg-x11-util-devel bison cvs
```
What about for gcc 4.5 ? how do I download it's dependencies for 11.2?
- Petr Uzel almost 13 years
  
  Please note that openSUSE 11.2 is no longer supported. I recommend you to upgrade to latest release, which is 11.4.
- Owen almost 13 years
  
  I have a program which compiles just fine in OpenSuse 11.2 with QT version 4.5. However, when I compiled the same program using OpenSuse 11.4 with QT 4.7.3 (required), I'm getting this error message: : fatal error: > QtXmlPatterns/QXmlSchema: No such file or directory I have these files in my usr and toolchain folders. I wonder why it can't be found. So I was thinking, maybe I could just update QT and GCC version of Opensuse 11.2.
- jonescb almost 13 years
  
  the QXmlSchema class was added in Qt4.6 so I'm not sure how you had it in 4.5. Did you have the devel package installed? Headers are found there.
- Owen almost 13 years
  
  @jonescb: yup, I have the devel package installed as well ...