[clug-talk] Development environment on Ubuntu 9.04

[John Jardine]

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get install build-essential

After that I'd D/L Eclipse, but substitute your preferred environment.


On Wed, 2009-06-24 at 21:27 -0600, Craig McLean wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> I just installed Ubuntu 9.04 desktop edition for the first time.  I can't
> seem to find a way of installing a c/c++ development environment at the
> click of a button.  Some other distributions have a generic development
> environment item you can pick in the package manager that will install all
> of the standard tools and common libraries.
> 
> Does Ubuntu have anything similar?  I'd rather not spend the next several
> hours picking around finding all the bits and pieces I might need.  I
> realize dependency checking make this easier, but it is still a pain.
> 
> I will be using this to build software from source.  In the short term
> Wireshark.
> 
> Craig.
> 
> 
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