Ubuntu Starting Questions

[marc]

Jason Todd Slack-Moehrle said:

> 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?

  $ sudo aptitude install build-essential
 
> 2. What about the latest Java from SUN? I could get from java.sun.com I
> suppose too.

  $ sudo aptitude install sun-java6-jdk

> 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.

If you know vi:

  $ sudo aptitude install vim-gtk

and/or for a fullscale dev IDE:

  $ sudo aptitude install netbeans

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Best,
Marc

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