[Yum] download specific version

[Patrick A Thompson]

      If you are a newbie to Linux- ask yourself- do I really need to
do this.  Others have addressed the yum part of the problem, but the
Linux part of the problem is also nasty.
      The way I have seen it done is to set up a separte directory
structure
for gcc-3.5... (look in your system and you will see the tree for
gcc-4.1)
load the compilers and libraries in this tree then add into the makefiles
to direct compilation and linking to 3.5.  Good luck.  When I was faced
with
the problem I gave up and converted the code :=(
        Pat

On Tue, 03 Oct 2006 20:12:22 -0400 Phil Patterson
<phil at thepattersonfamily.us> writes:
> 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?
> >