[Yum] download specific version

[Phil Patterson]

Joelle Tegwen wrote:
> I just recently migrated to Linux and I'm still figuring out some of 
> the basics. Please go easy on me.
> I'm running yum 2.6.1 on  Fedora Core 5
> I have gcc 4.1 installed on my machine and one of my software packages 
> requires gcc 3.5. How do I get yum to download that specific version?
> Then how do I get that particular software to use that particular 
> version of gcc?
>
> I read through the faq   http://wiki.linux.duke.edu/Yum and the man 
> page and I see a command for getting the version of yum but not one 
> for getting a version of a certain program.
>
> Thanks for any and all help.
>
> Joelle
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I cannot answer your question directly but I encountered what may be a 
similar problem with an application that is corrected with the 
compatibility library. The error I saw was "...cannot load 
libstdc+++.so.5..."

You might try "yum install compat-libstdc++-33"

Hope this helps.

Later,

Phil