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For instance, RHEL6 comes with gcc 4.4.7, but also provides 6.23.1 via Software Collections (SCL). Newer versions of build-time package are available (eg, gcc, valgrind, make, etc) and run-time packages too (python, ruby, php, git, mariadb, maven, nodejs, perl, java, nginx, mysql, mongodb, postgresql, redis, etc).
And there are other related RPMs (fortran, c++, etc.). To see what is available run the command
scl -l
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yum looklist forinstalled the| latestgrep versionrhscl of devtoolset, eg, devtoolset-6 as of June 2017
yum | grep rhscl| grep -v '^ '
The yum repo for SCL is SLAC RHEL6 Server Software Collections (slac-rhel-x86_64-server-6-rhscl-1). These are installed on public login hosts, if you do not have sudo on a host where it is needed, please send an email to unix-admin@slac.stanford.edu.
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The current RPM names (versions subject to change) for the versions of gcc are:
devtoolset-3-gcc-4.9.2-6.2.el6.x86_64
devtoolset-4-gcc-5.2.1-2.2.el6.x86_64
devtoolset-6-gcc-6.3.1-3.ksa@rhel6-64l $ rpm -q devtoolset-6
devtoolset-6-6.1-1.el6.x86_64
The meta RPM "devtoolset-6" will install other meta RPMs: devtoolset-6-{perftools, runtime, toolchain}. Here's an example with devtoolset-4-toolchain:
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