I am using ubuntu 20.04 LTS trying to get from GCC 9.4 to gcc 10 or higher

sudo apt-get install gcc-10 g++-10:

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g++-10 is already the newest version (10.3.0-1ubuntu1~20.04).
gcc-10 is already the newest version (10.3.0-1ubuntu1~20.04).
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 31 not upgraded.
<pre>gcc -v
Using built-in specs.
COLLECT_GCC=gcc
COLLECT_LTO_WRAPPER=/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/9/lto-wrapper
OFFLOAD_TARGET_NAMES=nvptx-none:hsa
OFFLOAD_TARGET_DEFAULT=1
Target: x86_64-linux-gnu
Configured with: ../src/configure -v --with-pkgversion=&apos;Ubuntu 9.4.0-1ubuntu1~20.04&apos; --with-bugurl=file:///usr/share/doc/gcc-9/README.Bugs --enable-languages=c,ada,c++,go,brig,d,fortran,objc,obj-c++,gm2 --prefix=/usr --with-gcc-major-version-only --program-suffix=-9 --program-prefix=x86_64-linux-gnu- --enable-shared --enable-linker-build-id --libexecdir=/usr/lib --without-included-gettext --enable-threads=posix --libdir=/usr/lib --enable-nls --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-libstdcxx-time=yes --with-default-libstdcxx-abi=new --enable-gnu-unique-object --disable-vtable-verify --enable-plugin --enable-default-pie --with-system-zlib --with-target-system-zlib=auto --enable-objc-gc=auto --enable-multiarch --disable-werror --with-arch-32=i686 --with-abi=m64 --with-multilib-list=m32,m64,mx32 --enable-multilib --with-tune=generic --enable-offload-targets=nvptx-none=/build/gcc-9-yTrUTS/gcc-9-9.4.0/debian/tmp-nvptx/usr,hsa --without-cuda-driver --enable-checking=release --build=x86_64-linux-gnu --host=x86_64-linux-gnu --target=x86_64-linux-gnu
Thread model: posix
gcc version 9.4.0 (Ubuntu 9.4.0-1ubuntu1~20.04)</pre>

Im new to linux so if there's anything else you need lmk


Enter the command gcc-10 instead of gcc to use gcc-10.

Alternatively, you can use the command sudo update-alternatives --config gcc to choose gcc-10 as the default gcc. Similarly, use sudo update-alternatives --config g++ to configure the default g++ version.