From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Nasser M. Abbasi" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: question on installing gnat on linux mint Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2017 04:24:14 -0500 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: Reply-To: nma@12000.org NNTP-Posting-Host: haGAlPkXY4sPzKA70YuTTA.user.gioia.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.3.0 X-Mozilla-News-Host: news://nntp.aioe.org:119 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Content-Language: en-US Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:47901 Date: 2017-09-03T04:24:14-05:00 List-Id: Basic question: I just installed Linux mint 18.2 which comes with gcc 5.4 >gcc --version gcc (Ubuntu 5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.4) 5.4.0 20160609 To install Ada, I saw the command to use is sudo aptitude install gnat When I try the above, it says ------------------------------------ The following NEW packages will be installed: cpp-4.9{a} gcc-4.9{a} gcc-4.9-base{a} gnat gnat-4.9{a} gnat-4.9-base{a} libasan1{a} libgcc-4.9-dev{a} libgnat-4.9{a} libgnatprj4.9{a} libgnatvsn4.9{a} The following packages are RECOMMENDED but will NOT be installed: ada-reference-manual-2012 gnat-gps 0 packages upgraded, 11 newly installed, 0 to remove and 229 not upgraded. Need to get 24.4 MB of archives. After unpacking 101 MB will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] n --------------------------------------------- My question is, why does it want to install gcc-4.9 when Linux comes with gcc 5.4 on it? Does this mean gnat 4.9 is build with earlier gcc? Will installing gnat change/overwrites the version of gcc on my system? or does it install its own gcc 4.9 somewhere else? Thanks --Nasser