Install Code::Blocks in Ubuntu 12.10

Question

I installed Code::Blocks from Muon Software Center (I'm using KDE) and I got Code::Blocks 10.05.

I found this link: https://launchpad.net/~pasgui/+archive/ppa/

After adding this PPA, and running sudo apt-get update if I run sudo apt-get install codeblocks, which version of Code::Blocks will I get? If I download the tarball from the main site, how to I install it properly?

Can someone help me out?

Solution 1

It will most likely install the newer version off the PPA. An easy way to check is to do apt-get install -s codeblocks and see what happens during the simulated install.

Tarballs are a little tricky. I recommend installing build-essential and checkinstall in addition to any dependancies that codeblock needs. Download the tarball, and expand it in a working directory with tar -xf filename.tar.gz. Then read the install file if any for instructions

Typically you need to pull in dependancies - an easy way to do this is to use apt-get build-dep. Then you run ./config (which checks if prerequisites are met and sets system specific stuff), make (which compiles), and make install(which moves the compiled files to the right places). I replace make install with checkinstall to make a deb and install that instead cause its easier to uninstall. YMMV - some applications replace make with cmake and so on.

Solution 2

Install Codeblocks 12.11 on Ubuntu 12.04 / 12.10

1º) Install libraries wxWidgets

$ sudo apt-get install libwxgtk2.8-0
$ sudo apt-get install libwxgtk2.8-dev

2º) Download libraries http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/libhunspell-1.2-0 (pay attention if your distribution is 32 or 64 bits) and install (This prevents errors when installing codeblocks)

$ sudo dpkg -i libhunspell-1.2-0_1.2.11-1_amd64.deb

3º) Download the binaries http://www.codeblocks.org/downloads/26 (pay attention if your distribution is 32 or 64 bits) Debian stable is: codeblocks_12.11-2_amd64-debian-stable.tar.bz2 (squeeze) Unzip to a folder and install:

    $ sudo dpkg -i *.deb

4º) If you develop for MySql Install MySql connector Download the version for your distribution from the official site mysql-connector-c-shared_6.1.0-2_amd64.deb and install

$ sudo dpkg -i mysql-connector-c-shared_6.1.0-2_amd64.deb

5º) Finally the library with header files for MySql

$ sudo apt-get install libmysqlclient-dev

(To install the MySQL server search on google)

Solution 3

Since you are using Ubuntu 12.10, I'm sorry to inform you that you will still be getting the Code::Blocks 10.05 version even after adding the PPA, since according to https://launchpad.net/~pasgui/+archive/ppa/+packages the codeblocks package for 12.11 is for Precise and not for Quantal.

And also, since the Code::Blocks version in the Ubuntu software repositories (quantal-release universe) https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/codeblocks is also 10.05, it might seem to be that you can't install Code::Blocks 12.11 using either the Ubuntu repositories or PPAs.

For the remaining installation method refer to @JourneymanGeek's answer.

Detailed guide:

1. Download the .tar.gz source code for Code::Blocks 12.11 in http://prdownload.berlios.de/codeblocks/codeblocks_12.11-1.tar.gz

2. Open a terminal, then type cd ~/Downloads (or any download location you have presetted)

3. Run tar -zxf codeblocks_12.11-1.tar.gz

4. Run sudo apt-get build-dep codeblocks

5. Run cd codeblocks-12.11release8629

6. Run ./configure

7. After completion type make && sudo make install (or checkinstall to get debian packages`.

After step 5 there is another method:

1. Run debuild.

2. Run cd ..

3. Run dpkg -i (the produced codeblocks packages) and it is installed!

Solution 4

After several trials and errors, I have successfully installed Codeblocks 12.11 on my laptop running Ubuntu 12.04. Luckily, I've documented the steps required to complete the installation process. This involved downloading the binary and getting all necessary dependencies.

Just open up terminal (Ctrl + Alt + T) and type this:

cd ~
mkdir codeblocks
wget -t 0 -P /home/<username>/codeblocks http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/codeblocks.berlios/codeblocks_12.11-2_i386-debian-stable.tar.bz2
cd codeblocks
tar xvjf *
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get -y install gcc build-essential gamin libgamin0 libwxbase2.8-0 libwxgtk2.8-0
sudo dpkg -i libcodeblocks0_12.11-2_i386.deb codeblocks-common_12.11-2_all.deb codeblocks_12.11-2_i386.deb

You need to change the <username> on step 3 with your username.

I'm not sure whether one or more steps are wrong nor unnecessary. It just works somehow.

Hope this helps.

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Comments

[Lucio]

I wont trust in your source..

[moorkaï]

Test it in a VM if you think it's harmful. I'm just trying to be helpful, don't hate me for that!

[Lucio]

They are already several PPA for this..

[moorkaï]

Pardon my ignorance, but could you point me to these PPAs? I know for pasgui's PPA, but it has Code::Blocks built only for Precise Pangolin. Yeah, you can install the "precise" version, but mixing versions seems like a bad (not necessarily harmful) idea, CMIIW. On the other side, pasgui built only douml for quantal, so I don't consider Code::Blocks available from his PPA in a conventional way.

[moorkaï]

Okay, Lucio was right, there really was an other PPA by a fella called Vincent Cheng which had a build of Code::Blocks for Quantal seven weeks earlier than me (this one). If you want to install Code::Blocks from there instead, add ppa:vincent-c/ppa to your sources list. I somehow succeeded not to find it (I guess Google didn't index his PPA in a timely fashion, because there's no other reason I would omit it), so it's up to you guys which PPA are you going to use. Unless if there's some functional difference I failed to notice.

[WonderCsabo]

Somehow the dependencies of codeblocks-contrib package was not installed, and Code::Blocks complained about it. I ran sudo apt-get -f install, that corrected the problem