Several people have noticed that Ubuntu does not come with a development environment. Well, fear not! Adding software is simple and there's even several pretty nice IDEs to choose from.

First, follow the steps on this web page: https://wiki.ubuntu.com//AddingRepositoriesHowto

Second, use the package manager to install build-essential, which should pull in gcc, gdb, ddd. Then if you want an IDE, install either anjuta or kdevelop

If you'd like to use Eclipse for 223, there's a howto here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/EclipseIDE

As always, post comments if you have any questions.

Here are some of the debuggers that are available for Linux.

• Kdbg
• KDbg is a graphical user interface to gdb, the GNU debugger. It provides an intuitive interface for setting breakpoints, inspecting variables, and stepping through code.
• ddd
• GNU DDD is a graphical front-end for command-line debuggers such as GDB, DBX, WDB, Ladebug, JDB, XDB, the Perl debugger, or the Python debugger. Besides "usual'' front-end features such as viewing source texts, DDD has become famous through its interactive graphical data display, where data structures are displayed as graphs.

This is a brief synopsis of some of the development environments available for Linux. It's by no means a comprehensive list, these are just the ones that LUG members are familiar with.

• Anjuta
• Fully customizable integrated editor.
• Automatic syntax highlighting.
• Automatic code formatting.
• Code folding/hiding.
• Line numbers/markers display.
• Text zooming.
• Code autocompletion.
• Calltips for Linux/GNOME function prototypes.
• Automatic indentation and indentation guides.
• ... and much more.
• Each file opened can be operated in either paged mode or windowed mode.
• Highly interactive source-level debugger (built over gdb).
• Interactive execution.
• Breakpoints/watches/signal/stack manipulation.
• ... and much more.
• Built-in application wizards to create terminal/GTK/GNOME applications on-the-fly.
• Dynamic Tags browsing.
• Function definition, structure, classes, etc. can be reached with just two mouse clicks.
• Full tags management for project.
• Full project and build files management.
• Bookmark management.
• Basic windows are attachable and detachable.
• Support for other languages
• Java, Perl, Pascal, etc. (only file mode, no project management).
• Interactive messaging system.
• And, the interface is beautiful!
• KDevelop
KDevelop is an integrated development environment which makes the creation and development of GNU Standard Applications an easy task even for beginners. Highlights of the current release are: an application wizard for easy creation of KDE 2&3, Qt 2&3, GNOME, and terminal C/C++ projects, full project management, a syntax-highlighting editor, an integrated dialogeditor for the Qt/KDE GUI libraries, an internal debugger, a full-featured classbrowser with classtools, CVS support, an integrated HTML-based helpsystem offering manuals and class-references, and extensive search mechanisms to browse sources and documentation.
• Emacs
• Emacs is the extensible, customizable, self-documenting real-time display editor.