Ubuntu Starting Questions

[Joep L. Blom]

Jason Todd Slack-Moehrle wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> It has been a long while since I used Linux for everyday tasks. I have  
> a new netbook running 9.04 UNR.
> 
> I have a few questions:
> 
> 1. How do I install Development tools? GCC, C++, make, autoconf, etc,  
> etc.? I know apt-get, but is there a package that fetches/installs  
> everything?
Go to System-> Administration -> Synaptic Package manager
  In synaptic search for the packages (gcc, c++, make, etc.)
> 
> 2. What about the latest Java from SUN? I could get from java.sun.com  
> I suppose too.
Search in synaptic for java restricted
> 
> 3. a text editor that has tabs? I have used SciTe before but that is  
> not tabbed. Should be fast and have syntax highlighting for web, java,  
> C++, SQL, etc.
For programming I use gedit but there are many other solutions
> 
> Thanks everyone! Be gone M$
> 
> -Jason
> 
Joep
>