On 5 August 2014 04:45, Syed Ahsan Ali Bokhari wrote: > My RHEL6.1 has pre installed gcc (GCC) 4.4.5 20110214 (Red Hat > 4.4.5-6). I want to update it to latest version. I don't have red hat > subscription and therefore I'll have to install from source. How can I > uninstall this version "yum erase gcc" but I would advise against doing that. > and install a more recent version of GCC. It's a bad idea to replace the system compiler, just install a newer version in a different path.