On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 12:42:39AM -0800, Robert Hanson enlightened us: > is there a single command to get *ALL* the DEVEL stuff meaning compilers and > libs and whatever on the box in "one fell swoop" > As was previously mentioned, gcc is part of the Development Tools group. As such: yum groupinstall "Development Tools" should take care of your one fell swoop requirement :-) Matt -- Matt Hyclak Department of Mathematics Department of Social Work Ohio University (740) 593-1263