I need to bootstrap my devlopment world...

[tananaBrian]

Hi,

I'm a noob, so be nice...

Just installed Ubuntu on a machine at home so I can learn Linux s/w development in c/c++, GTK+ etcetera. I'm on dial-up ...26.4kbaud connection...

I haven't tried to learn about apt-get or installing software packages from within Ubuntu yet because with my dial-up connection, it's pretty much a grand exercise in futility...

I need, however, to get gcc and other related tools and libraries onto that machine. My machine is an older Pentium III running dual-boot Windows XP Home and Ubuntu LTS v6.06.1.

Is there any place online that I can d/l binaries for gcc to get me started? I can d/l from at work and burn a CD or DVD, then carry it home ...and if I at least have gcc at home, then couldn't I then also build source code for the other packages?

Please help me get started!

By,
Noob

[po0f]

tananaBrian,

build-essential (http://packages.ubuntu.com/dapper/devel/build-essential) should be included on the installation CD. If you want to do GTK development, install libgtk2.0-dev (http://packages.ubuntu.com/dapper/libdevel/libgtk2.0-dev) and possibly libgtkmm (http://packages.ubuntu.com/dapper/libdevel/libgtkmm-dev) for C++/GTK, though I'd probably recommend wxGTK (http://packages.ubuntu.com/dapper/libdevel/libwxgtk2.6-dev) for C++ GUI stuff.

I don't know the exact directory to put debs for them to be recognized by Synaptic for installation, maybe start a new thread pertaining to that?

[tananaBrian]

Thanks for the pointers! I've saved off everything and will go see what I can make of it. Shall I assume that build-essential has gcc binaries in it? I'll keep reading and looking and trying...

Thx,
Brian

[po0f]

tananaBrian,

Yes, build-essential includes gcc, g++, make, and libc6-dev, as well as dpkg-dev. I wish these were installed by default, it took me a couple of hours after my first install before I found this package.

[tananaBrian]

Ok! Thanks a mil! Don't know why I didn't discover it before (I did endless web searches instead), but the 'Software Packages included in Dapper' web page that I found as a result of your hints has a lot more listed there as well. Whew! Feel soo much better ...now I can go get busy!

Brian