How-To: Compile and Install Code::Blocks from Source in Debian Lenny

Jan 12, 2009, 23:35 (0 Talkback[s])
(Other stories by Dan Craciun)

[ Thanks to Chris7mas for this link. ]

"The last stable version is 8.02, and was released almost an year ago. Since Code::Blocks is not included in the Debian repositories, I will show in this tutorial how to compile and install it from source in Lenny, the upcoming stable Debian release. Just follow the steps below:

"1. Download the source and uncompress it Download the source code from the official website, here, then make sure to switch the current directory to the one where you saved the source and uncompress it using the following command:

"tar -xjf codeblocks-8.02-src.tar.bz2"

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