Re- Installing Software - Anjuta-2.4.1

[Peter Garrett]

On Thu, 08 May 2008 22:40:43 +1000
Michael Harold <mike.harold at bigpond.com.au> wrote:

> Ah well! Back to the drawing board! Draughts Person Please?

OK - assuming Ubuntu (GNOME) and not Kubuntu (KDE), do this:

1) System -Administration - Software Sources ( type your password)
2) Under "Ubuntu Software" tick *all* the boxes
3) Under "Updates" tick "Important security..." and "Recommended..."
4) Close the dialogue box and the system should offer to update data.
    Accept. This will grab all the repository data that tells the
    system where to find software on the Net.
5) Now open "Applications - Add/Remove" . Under "Show" select "All
   available applications", and type "anjuta" in the search box
6) Tick the box for anjuta and accept the install
7) Let the install finish and look for Anjuta - probably under
    Programming 
7(b) You only need to do steps 1-4 once. After that you will have
   thousands of extra software packages available with a few clicks.

Suggestion:
8) Forget about tar.gz files and compiling until you are much more
    familiar with the system.  The "compiler cannot create executables"
    error means you don't have compiling tools installed. The package to
    install compiler tools is called "build-essential" - but in order
    to compile software you also need development library packages etc.
    - so compiling will still fail unless you install those development
    build dependencies. There are commands to do these things
    automatically, but that's beyond the scope of this reply.

For learning a more complete install/remove application read:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SynapticHowto

If you want to learn about the underlying commands, try this link:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AptGet/Howto

For more specific install commands information read:

http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/

For specific information about tools to help with compiling read:
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/ch-sourcehandling.en.html#s-build-dep



-- 
Peter Garrett <peter.garrett at optusnet.com.au>