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. > > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying

