Installing GCC-4.3.0 in Fedora 16

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Sat, 2012-02-25 at 17:05 +0530, R Logeshwaran wrote: 
> Hi I'm a research scholar doing my research in networking for that i use
> NS-2 package (ns-allinone-2.29). it will work good in Fedora-9 which uses
> GCC-4.3.
> My system is a new one it is not possible for me to install Fedora-9. So i
> have installed Fedora 16, but now NS.2.29 is not working in fedora 16 since
> the GCC compiler is 4.6.
> so i need a solution to downgrade gcc to 4.3.0 version. else solution to
> run NS2.29 in fedora16
> please help me...
> thanking you

I think your best bet for gcc is to get the tarball directly from the
GNU project and install in /usr/local.  I have done this before and it
works well enough.  IIRC, the instructions for building from source are
clear enough.

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Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Mathematical Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu