upgrade gcc on fedora core 4

[Richard Shaw]

On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 8:38 AM, Rossella Noschese
<noschese.rossella at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
> I've a question. At work we have a fedore core 4 release on a 64-bit
> machine. We need now to upgrade the compiler. We have GNU Fortran 95 (GCC
> 4.0.0 20050519 (Red Hat 4.0.0-8)). We need at least gcc version 4.1.2
> 20071124 (Red Hat 4.1.2-42). I'm not a great shell user, so can you help me?
> How do I get this upgrade?

Other will be able to explain why in much more detail, but the short
answer is, you don't. That's not to say it isn't technically possible
but you'll probably have to compile from source to even have a chance,
and I'm assuming there will be other dependencies that will have to be
upgraded as well.

End of Life (EOL) for Fedora Core 4 was announced on 8/7/2006 and the
current release is 13. For work environments I would highly recommend
moving to a long life distribution such as RHEL (pay supported) or
CentOS (free but community/self supported) or another distribution.

Richard