Hi,
I'm using 10.04 (will probably wait for 12.04 to upgrade) and I want to install the latest version of gcc. I currently have 4.4.3, and when I try apt-get upgrade or anything like that it tells me that I already have the newest version. Now, going to the website and downloading gcc 4.6 is straightforward enough, but I've seen a lot of posts where people have gotten into trouble trying to just to a simple install of a new version of gcc on top of an old one (which is pretty much all I know how to do). I develop in Qt fwiw though this is presumably a general issue. But problems will be along the lines of Qt not being able to find gcc or something like that.
So could anyone tell me a 'safe' way to manually upgrade gcc, since there doesn't seem to be a way to do it using standard tools? And the simpler/step-by-stepwise the explanation, the better.
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