g++4.8

You could use something like this. However, it's not recommended. If you really know what you're doing, you can try following: Jessie (testing) now contains gcc-4.8 which is compliant with C++11 (also gcc-4.9 is available). I used apt-pinning in the following way: A source to jessie was added to /etc/apt/sources.list: deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ jessie main non-free contrib /etc/apt/preferences was edited as such: Package: * Pin: release a=wheezy Pin-Priority: 900 Package: gcc* Pin: release a=jessie Pin-Priority: 910 Then, $ sudo aptitude update $ sudo aptitude install gcc-4.8/jessie $ ln -s /usr/bin/gcc-4.8 /usr/bin/gcc $ sudo aptitude install g++-4.8/jessie $ ln -s /usr/bin/g++-4.8 /usr/bin/g++