Installing Devtoolset-6 On CentOS 8
Has anybody tried (and succeeded) to get gcc 6.3.1 (or devtoolset-6) to work on CentOS 8?
In the Animation and Visual Effect industry, gcc 6.3.1 is still the current recommended compiler (see www.vfxplatform.com), and is required to build many plugins. Unfortunately, it is not a “minimum requirement”… It is THE
requirement.
So I tried to get it from the vault:
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sudo dnf config-manager –add-repo=
http://vault.CentOS.org/7.6.1810/sclo/x86_64/rh/
sudo dnf install devtoolset-6
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but I get these messages:
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Error:
Problem: package devtoolset-6-6.1-1.el7.x86_64 requires devtoolset-6-runtime, but none of the providers can be installed
conflicting requests nothing provides policycoreutils-python needed by devtoolset-6-runtime-6.1-1.el7.x86_64
(try to add ‘–skip-broken’ to skip uninstallable packages or ‘–nobest’ to use not only best candidate packages
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All options fail.
I hate having to install something not officially supported anymore, but still officially required for many current software.
Thank you.
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One thought on - Installing Devtoolset-6 On CentOS 8
As far as I can see SCL & devtoolset are not available for CentOS 8 –
the toolsets are integrated as part of the main distro, and they are only for newer versions of GCC and not older ones.
Yes, you are trying to install a CentOS7 package on CentOS8. It probably won’t work.
It depends what it is about GCC v6 you need – you can control the dialect of C that GCC act as using the ‘-std=’. Ultimately though, just download that particular version of GCC and compile/install it, it’s not a difficult thing to do and most of it is automated.
Strangely though, GNU doesn’t seem to think that 6.3.1 exists, the nearest on the GCC downloads is 6.3.0.
P.