Compiler Issues in CENTOS 8

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Dear experts,
I’m trying to install Geant and GATE on my personal PC. I converted my PC to Centos 8 that I understand it’s what CERN is using as they’ll not be making SLC8.

I’ve successfully installed Geant v4.10.05.p01 , and examples B1 and B2 run. I’ve also tried to install Gate 8.2 and as soon as I type make I get a huge number of disparate errors that I’m told to be dependent on my gcc/g++ version, which is 8.3.1

I’ve been told that I should install gcc 6.3, but I can’t find any way to do this on centos 8, while it appears to be simple in centos 7.

What do you recommend me to do? Is there a simple fix to make the compilation run in centos 8? My student managed to compile it on ubuntu with gcc 9! Or is there a way to install gcc 6.3 in centos 8?

Thanks in advance!

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If these errors are coming from compiling GATE, then you should contact their support to resolve the issues. Looking at http://www.opengatecollaboration.org, there is GATE 9.0, which may resolve some issues.