How to install Code Blocks 13.12 on Linux Mint 18.3
To install Code Blocks 13.12 on Linux Mint 18.3
The Code Blocks is a free, open-source cross platform IDE that supports multiple compilers including GCC, Clang and Visual C++. It has its own compilers, code editor, debugger, GUI desinger, user migration and more. It is so simple to install Code Blocks 13.12 on Linux Mint 18.3.
Instaling Code Blocks
First, make sure you add the necessary repository package to install code blocks and for that, you need to make use of the following command.
linuxhelp ~ # add-apt-repository ppa:eugenesan/ppa
You are about to add the following PPA:
This repository contains collection of customized, updated, ported and backported
packages for two last LTS releases and latest pre-LTS release.
Packages for older releases relocated to ppa:eugenesan/archive or deleted.
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gpg: requesting key 8313A596 from hkp server keyserver.ubuntu.com
gpg: key 8313A596: public key " Launchpad synergy+" imported
gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg: imported: 1 (RSA: 1)
The repositories are added successfully. Now update the repo by executing the apt-get update command.
linuxhelp ~ # apt-get update
Hit:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Hit:2 http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Ign:3 http://packages.linuxmint.com sylvia InRelease
Get:4 http://ppa.launchpad.net/eugenesan/ppa/ubuntu xenial InRelease [17.5 kB]
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Get:29 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports/universe i386 Packages [7,064 B]
Get:30 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports/universe Translation-en [3,812 B]
Fetched 5,472 kB in 8s (661 kB/s)
Reading package lists... Done
After the system package repositories has been updated install the code block using the following command.
linuxhelp ~ # apt-get install codeblocks
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
codeblocks-common libcodeblocks0 libwxbase3.0-0v5 libwxgtk3.0-0v5
Suggested packages:
libwxgtk3.0-dev codeblocks-contrib
Recommended packages:
Xterm
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Setting up libcodeblocks0 (13.12+dfsg-4) ...
Setting up codeblocks-common (13.12+dfsg-4) ...
Setting up codeblocks (13.12+dfsg-4) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.23-0ubuntu9) ...
Once the Code Block installation is through, you can launch the application by using the Linux Mint search field.
With this, the tutorial on installation of Code Blocks on Linux Mint 18.3 comes to an end.
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