But how does that make difference cos he has to download it anyway. If you're talking about downlaoding it from another PC or windows partition then he can better download .deb packages of GCC 3.4 from the net. Ubuntu people advise you to keep away from compiling softwares as they might break system dependancies. Though agreed that compiling is the better method, its best kept for people with experience and distros like Gentoo, Slackware and of course your LFS
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