Terminal commands for installing g++ 4.8?

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Could somebody please advise how I could install g++ 4.8 ? I understand its not an official release yet (and that I would need to manually download a file) but I get internal compiler bug issues with 4.7 and apparently the bug has been fixed in 4.8.

The problem is I do not know how to manually install g++ 4.8 when downloading the file etc.

Thanks in advance

score 3 · Accepted Answer · edited Jun 12 '20 at 14:37

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For 13.10:

Just use sudo apt-get install g++-4.8.

For 13.04 and earlier:

Use the ubuntu-toolchain ppa:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-toolchain-r/test
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install g++-4.8

edited Jun 12 '20 at 14:37

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answered Nov 04 '13 at 22:36

Richard

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Terminal commands for installing g++ 4.8?

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For 13.10:

For 13.04 and earlier:

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