getting appropriate gcc version

[vampsorrow]

Admittedly it's been a long time since I have used/installed seq, and I have never been a redhat guru... but here's the problem. I thought that installing RH9 would provide me with the latest version of gcc or at least a 3 version of gcc, but when I was trying to trouble shoot my installation, I discovered that I have gcc 2.96. I have no idea why that is, but I can't seem to find or figure out how to upgrade this. Can anyone tell me how to go about this?

[Cryonic]

Sounds like you don't have RH9 fully installed. RH9 default compiler is gcc-3.2.2

if you still have 2.9.6 then you either upgraded from an earlier version or didn't install RH9.

I would recommend installing either Fedora Core 1 or Mandrake 10 at this point as RH9 is going EOL in just a few months (if that) and won't see any patches for it.