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What is the best way to install GCC 4.8 in Quantal Quetzal (12.10)? I am trying to explore it's improved diagnostic messages and compare them to Clang, so 4.7 will not do.

gcc-snapshot from the repository, PPA, or compile from source?

Also will it coexist peacefully with an install of gcc 4.7 on the same machine?

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you have some reasonable answers from your cross-posted question (stackoverflow.com/questions/13100804/…) - as such I'm closing this. – fossfreedom♦ Oct 27 '12 at 15:49

closed as too localized by fossfreedom♦ Oct 27 '12 at 15:50

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