Some user wrote: > i have d/l it extracted it to /home/jQKuDGtE/gcc-4.3.2 and modified > my .bashrc file to export PATH=$PATH:"/home/jQKuDGtE/gcc-4.3.2/":$PATH What have you downloaded - the source .tar.bz2 or a binary RPM? If it's the source you can't build that without already having a compiler binary. If it's a binary RPM you should probably stick to the GCC version provided by CentOS since that's what your system's libraries will be built with - try "yum install gcc gcc-c++" instead. You'll probably need many -devel packages too to provide whichever libraries vlc needs to build. I would recommend you start with a vlc SRPM from Fedora instead and use rpmbuild to help you identify and resolve dependencies except I can't see one in the Fedora 9 or Fedora development distros. Rup.