How to install GCC/G++ 8 on CentOS

Question

I\'m used to install packages on Debian/Ubuntu distributions, but now I need to install gcc and g++ version 8.*. There is only version 4.* in CentOS re

Answer 1

Permanently adding DTS to your development environment

After installing the devtoolset:

yum install devtoolset-8-gcc devtoolset-8-gcc-c++

You can also use the following command, to make DTS the default:

source scl_source enable devtoolset-8

The benefit of this command is that it can be added to .bashrc, so that you don't have to run the scl command every time you login:

scl enable devtoolset-8 -- bash