Is it save to upgrade to gcc 3.2 on a RH7.3 box ?
I have unsuccessfully tried to install Epson's Iscan some time back. Neither the Iscan (for gcc
1.96) rpm or source would work. At the time, I thought it was being stubborn because I had
upgraded gcc to 2.0.3 and the kernel to 2.4.20.
So now I want to try Iscan for gcc 2.3.x. Synaptic didn't know anything about gcc 2.3, it
wanted to install the latest gcc 1.96. I typed "apt-get update gcc-2.3.3" from the console (can't
remember exactly, but close enough). Apt is happy with this, but also wants to download and
update some 200 other programs (I suspect the ones that rely on gcc?). The whole download
of more than 200MB would take about 12 hours.
What am I to do? Will it be safe to do the relatively massive update? (I don't mind to) Or am I
going to wreck the system if I do?
<OT> Chris is quite right about xsane not being on top of scanning. It is okay for colour
prints, colour slide film and b&w negatives, but useless for colour negatives. Thinking back, I
should have thought about that before I made my comment last week that he could possibly
use xsane rather than iscan - sorry Chris. And here I am, in his shoes! Poetic justice :-)
</OT>
rgds
Jaco
