To enable support for Software Collections on your system so that you can enable and build Software Collections, you need to have installed the packages scl-utils and scl-utils-build.

If the packages scl-utils and scl-utils-build are not already installed on your system, you can install them by typing the following at a shell prompt as root:

yum install scl-utils scl-utils-build

The scl-utils package provides the scl tool that lets you enable Software Collections on your system. For more information on enabling Software Collections, refer to Section 1.7, “Enabling a Software Collection”.

The scl-utils-build package provides macros that are essential for building Software Collections. For more information on building Software Collections, refer to Section 2.1, “Building a Software Collection Locally”.