remove older gcc?

[dsm1212]

Minor thing but I noticed my system has both gcc 4.7 and 4.9 installed.From the shell gcc --version shows I'm running 4.9.

I don't know if I did that manually or it happened due to a sequence of netgear upgrades, but can I remove the gcc 4.7 package? I'm a little confused how that might be tied to libc and I don't want to make a mistake. 

steve

[mdgm-ntgr]

We've been using gcc 4.9 since 6.2.0.

Do you have any apps installed?

Do you have a backup of your data?

[dsm1212]

Thanks...

We've been using gcc 4.9 since 6.2.0.

>> I installed OS6 a few months after it was running on the PRO 6 so I probably started before 6.2.0. So that's probably why I have both. I likely installed buildessential pre-6.2.0 and then updated it after.

Do you have any apps installed?

>> Yes, plex, sickbeard, qbittorrent, htop, headphones, couchpotato, plex, subsonic. Removing gcc would not affect libraries and break these would it?

Do you have a backup of your data?

[mdgm-ntgr]

I guess you could try removing the older package if you really want to then.

[dsm1212]

No problem, used "apt-get remove gcc-4.7-base". I was just being paranoid.

thanks