alexandreelise/install-gcc repository overview

⁠INSTALL GCC LATEST ON ANY UBUNTU LTS SINCE UBUNTU 14.04 LTS

Optimized Dockerfile to install gcc on any Ubuntu LTS version since Ubuntu 14.04 LTS latest available on each platform at the time of writing.

⁠PRE-REQUISITE:

• You know want Docker is (If not : https://www.docker.com⁠)
• You have latest version of Docker installed on your machine
• You have latest git version on your machine
• You understand how a Dockerfile works (If not : https://docs.docker.com/engine/reference/builder/⁠)
• You are not scared of using the Terminal or command-line tools
• Don't worry you'll be ok. Give it a try

⁠DOCKER IMAGES ON DOCKER HUB

⁠USAGE

To create an Docker image locally on your machine. Please follow those instructions (E.g. build image gcc 9 on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS)

git clone https://github.com/alexandreelise/install-gcc && \
cd install-gcc && \
docker image build --build-arg BASE_IMAGE=ubuntu:14.04 --build-arg WANTED_GCC_VERSION=9 -f Dockerfile -t 'yourusername/install-gcc:9-ubuntu-14.04' .

⁠EXTRA

If you prefer using the multi-build.sh script to build all the combinations of Ubuntu LTS versions and gcc versions at once you can tweak the provided script or use it as is

git clone https://github.com/alexandreelise/install-gcc && \
cd install-gcc && \
chmod 700 multi-build.sh && \
./multi-build.sh

⁠NOTE

Does not work anymore with Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (image not found)

⁠SPECIAL THANKS:

Special thanks to the Ubuntu community, Gcc community and Docker community.

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